Re: conjugating by object

Quoting Jake X <starvingpoet@...>:
> Thomas Wier slabronten:
> > > So:
> > >
> > > She-NOM loved-3rd-SING-cat.
> >
> > I think what you're talking about here is not object agreement,
> > but object incorporation, which is quite different.
>
> Sorry if I named the idea wrong, but the purpose would be to make every
> sentence in the CONLANG intransitive.  Don't you think that would
> be elegant?
I don't think anyone but the creator of a conlang can determine
"elegance", per se, though others may certainly have their own
opinions.   But if we are holding Conlangs against natlangs as
a measure of elegance (which I usually do with my own), then I
would say an all-incorporating language would be *very* strange.
However, I seem to remember hearing that in Tiwa (or some language
spoken in New Mexico), there are rules for obligatory object
incorporation under certain conditions; I forget exactly what
these conditions are.  So, it seems that you might just get
away with it.  :)

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