Re: Conlang book
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 14:18 |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:04:39PM +0200, Tero Vilkesalo wrote:
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> That brings to my mind that conlangs could theoretically have a case for
> virtually anything. How do you people see this? If the conlang uses cases, we
> could indicate an important expression in an artificial case.
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I remember talking about this once: you could have a conlang that uses
suffixes for case markings, and then have a way of constructing new case
suffixes to derive new meanings. Then you'll have a theoretically infinite
number of cases :-)
T
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