Re: Attributive Nominal Forms and Syntax in a lang experiment

In a message dated 11/18/2003 9:47:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
erelion12@YAHOO.COM writes:


>While sitting around in class today, I started
>doodling about, creating a few vocab items and simple
>sentences. The main "strange" feature in this
>experiment seems to be the 'pre-attributive' form of
>the noun. This form seems to be used before something
>that describes it, whether an adjective, a possessive,
>or a relative clause.

My vaguely-sketched conlang has what I call (for no obvious reason) "weak
forms" of nouns, which are used whenever the noun is modified by anything, like
an adjective or relative clause.  The idea was to help make it clear what
modifies what, even if you scrambled the word order.

Doug