Re: New Language

Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

> Hello everyone, I am creating a new language called Malat. It is
> > intended to be the most logical language ever created. This will be the
> > first time that anyone else but me (and my family) has seen the
> > language.
> I could never have spoken of conlanging with my relatives. Happy you.
I started young... there was no way i could cover it up after that :)

> Currently I only have a short grammar description and a
> > pre/postfix list up. Check it out at http://www.metro.net/3jones/malat/
> > . I'd greatly appreciate any comments or ideas that you have.
> Very (scale-)logical indeed. What about deictic for clauses ? Is *change* a
> *transformative* or *progressive* process ?
I didn't really describe the change thing well... I'm in the middle of
re-writing that section and the one before it. The change i'm talking about is
a transformative change, from one state to another. The "progressive" change i
think you're talking about is [-ad], where the action continually progresses;
if [-rd] is there instead, then the action is paused for the moment and will
continue again. The rest of the morphemes denote a change from one state/action
to another.

I didn't know what "deictic" meant until I read your message and decided to look
it up. I'm assuming that so far all I've shown on my page is that all deixis
are suffixes on the end of words. Give me some example sentences with clauses
that would require deictics and I'll see how malat would deal with it.

> Section 13 (cases) : instrument=location : Japs do that in case of place of activity
> (*-de* enclitic) but what if I work with a tool in a place ? Never thought of
> making a distinction between essive-lative cases and core cases ? Cause-->
> effect : don't you think there are two degrees of cause/effect (like there
> are an *inalienable* and a *disposable* attributive) ? The last section 14
> mixes a bit of everything. I guess you're going to tidy it up.
Well I haven't really thought out the instruments/locations yet, I just clumped
them together for the moment. I was actually planning on using the [r-] before
the word to tell it was one of those, but then adding a morpheme to the end to
be more specific (like the location or use of the instrument). Essive: another
word i have just learned. I will decide about the essive cases when i re-think
how all the cases will work in Malat.

Give me some examples of the inalienable cause/effect and the disposable one. One
thing I have not really implimented yet is relationship words between each of
the seperate actions, linking them together in a certain way, telling in what
way one caused the other.

The last section is sort of a "catch all" until I can think of a more logical way
to organize those particular meanings.
--
-Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

-Garrett Jones aka Alkaline
Rising Sun - C&C2: Tiberian Sun - http://www.cnc2.com/
Malat - http://www.metro.net/3jones/malat/