Re: All-verb language - instalment 1

Estel Telcontar scripsit:

> That's all the four categories.  All words belong to one of these
> categories.  What do youguys think?
I think you are reinventing Loglan/Lojban/Gua\spi/Voksigid predicates,
which look exactly like this.  In all four languages, nouns (or
noun phrases) are made from the basic predicates by affixing an
article indicating "something which occupies a specified case of
that predicate".  For example, Lojban "gerku" means "X is a dog of
breed Y", and "le gerku" and "le se gerku" are noun phrases meaning
"the dog(s) (I have in mind)" and "the dog breed(s) (I have in mind)".

If we use "lo" instead of "le", we get "a dog/some dogs" and "a
dog breed/some dog breeds".  Lojban does not mark number, except by
using an explicit number such as "two", "many", "a sufficient number",
or "one or more".

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