Re: Verbless conlangs (was: Tense marked on nouns)

Sally Caves wrote:
>Sorry, Jonathan.  I've been away for over a year, and I am
>unfortunately unfamiliar with these other verbless languages.
>I know Sylvia's by virtue of having met her in California and studied
>her language a bit.  Hence my "famously".  Pace!  I'd love to see
>how you've constructed T4.
No problem!  I'd be the first to admit that T4 (was: Telona) is
not a well publicised language.  I never seem to be satisfied enough
with it to feel ready to post significant amounts -- and after six
years it still doesn't have a lexicon ... blame mutating phonology.

Anyway -- if you are interested <flattery alert> (and I would be
deeply flattered if you are, as the composer of one of the
best-known, most complete and most pleasing conlangs I know)
</flattery>, there's a PDF summary at http://knibb.free.fr/main.html
which is a year out of date but will give you a flavour.  My post last
week about number and aspect is representative of the changes
it's gone through in the last few months.

I'd be delighted to answer any specific questions about T4 on-
or off-list (that goes for everyone else as well, natch).

best,
Jonathan.

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