Re: Aelya question

Aidan Grey wrote:
<snip first query>
>     Second query:
>
>     I have another problem - I love morphology. So, I keep trying to add
> ooodles (3 o's is on purpose!) of neat stuff, like cases like Finnish,
> morphosyntactic qualities like Navaho, a gajillion (it's a technical term)
> deictics, and so on. On top of that, I'm never happy with the affixes or
> umlauts I assign. How do you folks deal with this - I can't be the only
> person here (and I know I don't have time to start ANOTHER lang - I'd like
> to finish this one!) with this problem?
No, definitely not the only one.  My Nevokányi has upwards of seventeen
cases -- all in common usage -- plus more uncommon ones.  But it has an
ultrasimple verb system.  What I try to do is spread my love of
morphological complexity over many languages, so that another language
might have really complex verbs, and another might have a complex system
of postpositions, or word order, or noun-adjective agreement, etc.  For
me, this is the easiest way, because I think if I had all that
complexity stuffed into one language, I'd rip my hair out!

Nicole
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