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Re: Adpositionless conlang?

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Saturday, March 13, 2004, 8:36
In a message dated 2004:03:12 06:43:19 PM, Kou (latinfrench@SAGESCHOOL.ORG)
quotes & writes:

>Pablo asks: > >>I heard get* you = "I heard from you" >>She needs wood want* building house = "She needs wood to build a house" >>He poured wine put* glass = "He poured glass into the glass" >> >> [major snippage] >>What do you think? > >I'm thinking, check out a Chinese grammar.
And also how creoles approach serial noun and verb phrases. Much intriguin' things to learn there IMHO... more Pidgin than Pentecost (talkin' in tongues), know what I mean 0_o? --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...--- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net</A> Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... ...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary Snyder "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa ! ¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]