Re: Weekly Vocab 7 in Kash (part)

> Hi!
>
> Garrett Jones <conlang@...> writes:
> ...
> > > tanju mamelo çemu cando-ningar
> > > now I-want  shop   ornament-body
> >
> > are compounds head-first in kash? i've played around with this
> a little in
> > Minyeva and i'm debating whether to keep it or not.
> >...
>
> Why not?  E.g. Bahasa Indonesia has it: rok mini = mini rock, bahasa
> ingres = English language, and French has it in compounds with 'de'
> and 'a`' (and other Romance langs in the same way).
>
> What were you exactly debating about?
>
> **Henrik
I want Minyeva to be typologically perfect, in the sense that it follows all
of the orders of a head first language. i haven't been able to find much
information on the correlation between head first syntax and head first
compounding, though. I see that Bahasa indonesia is SVO (and thus head
first). There are also the factors of learnability, too... how hard would it
be for people to get used to head first compounding? And is there a
correlation between head-first compounding and prefixing? I think languages
tend to favor suffixing in general even when they are head first, and even
though suffixing is a head-last phenomenon.

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Garrett Jones
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