Zompist Bboard Again

That isn’t quite what I meant. English has a ‘determiner’ slot in its NP, where you can put an article, a demonstrative, a possessor etc. You can say the car , my car , this car , but you can’t combine two determiners: *the my car , *the this car . But many languages don’t have a ‘determiner’ slot ...

bradrn - very useful substantial suggestions. I am definitely going to make it synthetic, not sure about polysynthetic but I'll look into what difference it will make. Topicality has also been suggested by others and I think it's an excellent idea that goes with non-configurationality. Not sure abou...

Indeed, someone has suggested non-configurationality would be the way to go - that the opposite of strict word order would be very loose word order, with the role of all arguments clear from inflections. Latin poetry is non-configurational. I think that might be preferable than trying to specify a v...

Hi all I have an idea for a new engelang, I wonder if anyone will be interested in working with me on it or if they have any useful feedback (including telling me it won't work or someone has done it before, that's fine!) It's basically a language that would have the opposite grammar to English, as ...