Re: Introducing myself, and several questions
From: | Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@...> |
Date: | Monday, February 14, 2005, 8:05 |
Damian Yerrick wrote:
> DEFAULT SETTINGS OF GRAMMAR
>
> I don't want to make euroclones all the time, but I don't want to
> make an unspeakable language that violates fifty-two universals
> either. What structures are "easier" for the developing hominid
> brain to parse? For example, do learners intrinsically prefer
> object-verb order or verb-object order? What about adjective-noun
> or noun-adjective? Is there any appeal to iconicity for this?
If you don't want euroclones, there's a very easy way to avoid it:
learn any non-European language!
Then my problem is that all my languages look some sort of clone
of Korean, my first language. :( All OV, agglutinative, converb...
I found that I really can't create any sounding conlang with grammatical
gender or complex verbal agreement. I just lose track of rules I made.
Seo Sanghyeon