Re: How to write down a language design?

* Mario Bonassin said on 2003-12-02 07:42:51 +0100
> Sorry for the lateness in this reply but I have been away a very long time.
>
> I have found reading throught the greywizards ámman îar reference grammar
>
> http://www.graywizard.net/Conlinguistics/amman_iar/ai_contents.htm
>
> has inspired me on many occasions.  I believe it is one of the better
> presented conlangs I've seen.
The best presented *natlang* I've seen is Basque, in R.L. Trask's
"The History of Basque" (the whole of chapter two). It's also the best
overview of Basque that I've found anywhere. There's lots about Basque
on the web as well, but either too fragmented, too concentrated on some
detail, or too shallow.

In fact, this fall I've been studying Basque (as a consequence of needing
some language or other that wasn't already used for a grammar project).
If you want hairy, freaky verbs, Basque is it.

One termpaper this fall will be "A core LFG grammar fragment of modern Basque",
and I'm very much looking forward to writing it.


t., who is seriously considering a basquified romance conlang...

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