Re: [engelang] Re: [jboske] LoCCan3 development ideas.
From: Leonardo Castro <leolucas1980@hidden.email>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 00:45:15 -0300
Subject: Re: [engelang] Re: [jboske] LoCCan3 development ideas.
To: engelang@yahoogroups.com
Cc: jboske@yahoogroups.com
Brett Williams,
E: Combines roots into compounds, so the root "t" plus the root "b"
I/U: Together a root+i and a root+u form a pair of parentheses.
Coincidentally, once I imagined a conlang with similar uses to the vowels /e/, /i/ and /u/:
* /e/ or /o/ would also combine roots into compounds;
* /i/, /u/ or /a/ would end every word, that would be morphologically built according to "binary relations":
For instance, "eating" is a relation between the "eater" (usually an animal) and the "eaten" (the food).
So, if the root "kiom-" is chosen to the act of "eating", then we have defined the following words:
kiomi: any living been who eats; kioma: verb "to eat"; kiomu: food.
Every word could be defined in this way, and a lot of additional vocabulary would naturally appear. For instance, if the root for "being" is "hies-", then we would have:
hiesi: something that exists;
hiesa: verb "to be"; hiesu: the predicative, "what it is".
So, the sentence "hiesi hiesa hiesu" would mean "Something is what it is.".
The major problem of this conlang is to deal with actions involving more than two things, as "to move": SOMEONE move SOMETHING from SOMEWHERE_1 to SOMEWHERE_2.
I thought about how to decompose this kind of verb into binary relations for a long time and I concluded that it's possible, but there are some side effects.