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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