Re: All-verb language - instalment 1

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:44:05 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

>Estel Telcontar scripsit:
>
>> That's all the four categories.  All words belong to one of these
>> categories.  What do youguys think?
>
I think that it looks promising so far. Of course, there
will still be lots to invent - but that's the fun for us
conlangers, isn't it? :-))))

>I think you are reinventing Loglan/Lojban/Gua\spi/Voksigid predicates,
>which look exactly like this.  In all four languages, nouns (or
Hm... there are more languages which derive much from verbs.
I would not agree that the principle as such is specific to
Lojban/Loglan etc.

My current project is also some kind of all-verb language
but it will by no means enforece logic like those logical
languages have to - hence their name. ;-))
Verbs are not the same as predicates because who says that
there must be a fixed place-structure like Lojban et al handle
the job...? With an ounce of fantasy there are lots of ways
to make a conlang walk new paths even while adopting well-known
ideas. :-)))

And the trick with the direct object denoting details about a
strictly noun-type concept is neat... I will steal this one if
I may... ;-)))

All the best,
Harald

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