Re: Changing worldviews with language (LONG)
| From: | Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 4, 2002, 2:21 |
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H. S. Teoh wrote:
>Mmmm... transitivity... well, Ebisedian does not have any concept of
>transitivity. It has no concept of subject/object.
Yes, that's what I was getting at. Harald seemed to suggest that we were all
sticking with certain prinicples like transitivity. I used Ebisedian as a
counterexample.
It also makes me want to work more on my two non-transitive grammars,
Tolborese and Omurax. Rhean (transitive) seems to absorb a lot of the time
and ideas which I originally intend for other languages.
>Ah, you really should take a look at Matthew's "bac". Its grammar is very
>similar to what you describe here.
I have, when he posted the piece for the six-and-a-halfth relay.
NS
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