Re: My new conlang

Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> > > Are there any natlangs that have no transitive verbs?
> >
> > Tagalog! With its trigger system, it can very easily be argued that it
> > has no
> >transitive verbs, or rather, that the category of transitivity vs.
> >intransivity doesn't apply to them.
>
> Well, I'm talking about NO verbs which can allow two arguments.  No DO
> no IO no predicate compliments -- nothing.
The closest thing I can imagine to this is the jocular plan
I mentioned a while back about a language which is maximally
fusional -- it reduces, for example, the entire _Critique of
Pure Reason_ to the single word _po_. It's like polysynthesis,
except not at all agglutinative.

(This *is*, of course, impossible.)

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