>How often do you change
> your conlang(s)? Are you in the slow process-camp or the overnight-camp?
Well, I changed Palo from a stress language to a register tone language
overnight. That was a couple of years after I changed it from a language
with verb suffixes for tense to a language with present vs. past tense word
orders. I guess I'm a periodic revisions person.
> In looking at VSO langs, I have yet to see one that doesn't have the
> definite article. So in moving Skerre to VSO, I figured I should add the
> definite article. However, with my beloved reduplicative plural prefix,
the
> article becomes a problem, because it becomes confusing between, ta tansko
> (the race), and tatansko (races). Looking at possible solutions to my
> problem, I'm pondering adding a suffixing definite article. Does this
seem
> natural, especially for a VSO lang?
> -Doug
I didn't know that there was a connection between VSO word order and the use
of definite articles. How many VSO languages have you studied?
Approximately how many VSO languages are there all told? Are you sure that
there is a VSO-definite article connection in natural languages?
Jim