Re: Unilang: the Grammar

Hi!

SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...> writes:
> If I may butt in, to the person writing on Tyl-Sjok,
> why is it that you decided on making simple concepts
> like "come/go" into long phrases as you said
> ("move-use-foot").  Is it to resemble Mandarin or
> something?  Just curious...
For various reasons:
  - the language should be isolating, and I thought
    that a concept of `go' and `come' is merely the same
    with some variation, so it should be composed.
    The problem is, of course, to decide where to stop
    decomposing concepts...

  - the language is supposed to be some kind of
    proto-language for unbelievably complicated
    languages yet to come.  These will use a lot
    of contraction to derive words from their
    constructed ancestor, Tyl-Sjok.
    By using composition now, I'll be able to
    `compute' new stems in offspring languages.

  - the language is meant to be (almost overly)
    ambiguous.  So usually, you simply don't use
    the long phrase for `to come', but mere use
    `to move'.

**Henrik

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