Re: Soaloa - A goofy little grammar/syntax

--- Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

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Intersting observations. As I envision it Soaloa will
be uninflected since the word order is so strict there
is no need for case marking of any kind.

>
> What other reciprocal relationships does Soaloa
> have? I can think of
> buy-sell, lend-borrow, perhaps give-receive-- but I
> think you'd need some
> sort of "case-marking" or verb-marking (perhaps
> "passive"?) to indicate
> who's buyer, who's seller, etc.
>
Right now Soaloa consists of a few pages of scrawled
notes (copied over the weekend to the web page
http://fiziwig.com/grammar1.html ) and nothing else.

I like you suggested complementary pairs.  May I
borrow them? As for case marking, again the word order
is so strict, (as hinted at in the name, "SOALOA"
being one of the simpler possible sentence patterns)
that case marking is unnecessary.  Relative position
of the word tells all.

--gary