[YG Conlang Archives] > [engelang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
Jorge Llamb�as, On 17/08/2012 23:47:
And's event-argument provides a good way to handle subordinate clauses. I have "k" as the core arguments separator, I would add "f" as a way of adding an event argument to any predicate. So we can have for example: la le nnle li nxli tvlekifa vska'aka The x which the y which is a boy the z which is a girl, y talks to z in x, I see x I see the boy talking to the girl. Alternatively, and perhaps easier to parse: la nnla le nxle li tvlakefi vska'aki The boy, the girl, the event in which he talks to her, I see it.
If the event arguments preceded the other arguments and the {F} followed rather than preceded it, then {fV} would never be word-final and hence would be freed up to also have a separate word-initial function.
One other thing I thought about is numbers. I would not make them quantifiers as in Lojban, but just ordinary predicates: "x1 is one", "x1 are two", "x1 are three", etc, basically Lojban's "PA mei". They could be constructed by assigning a letter to each digit and then reserving a prefix (say nm-) to form each predicate: nmpa "a is one", nmra "a are two", nmxxxa "a are 666".
You could extend this scheme so that a different initial CC pair marks ordinals, tho maybe the ordinality could be nmC but with a different adicity (X is nth in sequence Y). But different initial CC pairs would still be useful for, say "X is the number 2" and so forth. -And.