Re: i'm reforming one of my conlangs

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Vincent Pistelli <pva003@...> wrote:
> I am reforming my conlang, sola and I want to know what yinz think. I
> am going to either use a prefix, suffix, circumfix, or maybe even a separate
> words as a marker to show that it is a noun, verbs, or adjective(or adverb).
> I just want to get some feedback on those of you conlangers that use on of
> those to show part of speech.
My engelang säb zjed'a has part-of-speech marking, with suffixes
applied to root words.  The root words have a default part of
speech in accordance with their semantics, indicated
by their final consonant, but can be converted to other parts
of speech (with a predictable semantic rule) with vowel sufifixes.

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/conlang13/intro.htm
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/conlang13/grammar-p1.htm

Using separate words to mark part of speech would be interesting.
If done in a certain way it could result in an effectively verbless
and adjectiveless language: the base words being marked could
be analyzed as all being nouns and the part-of-speech markers
as adpositions.

Larry Sukly's Konya and Ilomi marked part of speech; you
could take a look at them.

http://ca.geocities.com/HandyDad/konya/konya-main.html

http://ca.geocities.com/handydad/elomi/elomi-main.html

And of course Esperanto famously does so, and the resulting
derivational flexibility is one of its niftier features.


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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/