Re: Group Conlang (was: Re: a Conlang, created by the group?)

Charles wrote:
>
>Pablo Flores wrote:
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>> c) Case markers are prefixed (Carlos and Mathias both proposed
>> this, and we the others have stayed silent), so adpositions have to
>> be postfixed according to b).
>
>That looks a bit like prefix+root+inflection,
>as in the word "pre-fix-ed". You would still need
>prepositions, I think, which would be messy.
It's  case_inflection + root + other_inflections.
We would use postpositions, not prepositions, for (non-existant)
locative, ablative, allative, etc.

>It looks both too Latin and too English ...
>Maybe pure affix agglutination is better?
Having prefixed cases would reverse the Latin structure,
and postpositions would get rid of any resemblance to
English. Believe me, no-one wants to have an IE clone.

We *will* have affix agglutination, both pre- and postfixed.


[snip your case system description]
>Also, it used "patient" for "predicate adjective",
>which may be more equivalent to your "modifier".
>Would you use it also within a noun phrase? ...
I quote Carlos:
>* patient: anything being modified or hold by a predicate (absolutive)  The
>stopped car is blocking THE HIGHWAY, the dog bit ME
>
A modifier is something which adds further information on the modified:
"the BAD dog bit me.", i.e. the equivalent to an adjective.

So a patient can be the *head* of a noun phrase, and a modifier would
be... a modifier.

I(agent) hit(predicate) a BROWN(modifier) DOG(patient)


--Pablo Flores