Re: My new conlang

Christophe wrote:
>En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
>
> >
> > I'm still not making myself clear.  Too many days since I last slept.
> > I
> > mean the verbs will not permit a seond argument of ANY type.  You could
> > not
> > even say "He went to the store," sine NOTHING zipo nada is allowed in
> > that
> > slot.  NO arguement of ANY kind, not even in a prepositional phrase.
> > In
> > fact, IIRC, that lang didn't have prepositions.  It's been a loooong
> > time
> > sice I worked on it.  In Tagolog no verb *needs* two arguments.  In my
> > lang
> > no verb was ALLOWED two arguments.  In fact you couldn't even have a
> > compound subject.
> >
>
>But a circonstantial complement is not a core argument of the verb! It can
>even
>be considered (as we do in French) not as an argument of the verb at all,
>but
>of the sentence itself. Do you mean a language where you cannot have more
>than
>one verb and one argument per sentence? That doesn't even sound possible to
>me.
>How would you translate: "He went to the store"? "He went. To the store
>went"?
>How can a language not accept peripheral complements in sentences? A
>language
>like that couldn't have subordination either...
I once heard a suggestion to make a language that simply don't need anything
but verbs, because it has specific verb for exactly every action thinkable.
This totally different from noun-incorporation etc, 'cos it'd have one
unitary verb for "John went to the bathroom" and another unitary verb for
"John went to the kitchen".

Undoubtly, a such language would boost thinking speed alot, but it'd require
an absolutely enormous vocab. By having a large number of tense, aspect and
mood distinctions we could cull the required number of verbs a bit
(different tenses for "one hour ago" and "two hours ago"!), but the lexicon
would still need to be incomparably much larger that English's.

                                                          Andreas

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