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2007-Jun-01, Friday 20:29* I reread The Illearth War and The Power that Preserves.
* I won't be able to attend the Heinlein Centennial in Kansas City. It's the same weekend as the 2nd Language Construction Conference, and then there would be the question of money. Anyway, I know more people going to the conference.
* Tuesday, I stopped work on PolyF to start another still nameless project.
Word order is VSO with adjectives following nouns. This allows the same verb forms to be used both as verbs and as adjectives. There will be prepositions.
There are a fairly large number of noun classes (I don't know how many yet). The class markers are mandatory on nouns and used on verbs for agreement purposes when the verbs aren't in the same clause (assuming complement and adjunct clauses are separate). The class marker of a noun is replaced by another for plurals and to form different nouns. Certain class markers double as case markers; these are added to the word rather than replace the existing class. Verbs will also have 1st and 2nd person pronominal markers as well as the class markers. They'll also have reflexive and inverse alignment markers and relative and indefinite pronominals
While class and pronominal markers are prefixed, aspect, mood, and tense markers are suffixed. The aspects are the usual perfective, imperfective, retrospective, prospective, and tenseless. The moods are the usual indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and optative. The tenses are present, past, and future and are marked differently for the perfective aspect.
Syllables are mostly CV with some CVC and CVV.
* I won't be able to attend the Heinlein Centennial in Kansas City. It's the same weekend as the 2nd Language Construction Conference, and then there would be the question of money. Anyway, I know more people going to the conference.
* Tuesday, I stopped work on PolyF to start another still nameless project.
Word order is VSO with adjectives following nouns. This allows the same verb forms to be used both as verbs and as adjectives. There will be prepositions.
There are a fairly large number of noun classes (I don't know how many yet). The class markers are mandatory on nouns and used on verbs for agreement purposes when the verbs aren't in the same clause (assuming complement and adjunct clauses are separate). The class marker of a noun is replaced by another for plurals and to form different nouns. Certain class markers double as case markers; these are added to the word rather than replace the existing class. Verbs will also have 1st and 2nd person pronominal markers as well as the class markers. They'll also have reflexive and inverse alignment markers and relative and indefinite pronominals
While class and pronominal markers are prefixed, aspect, mood, and tense markers are suffixed. The aspects are the usual perfective, imperfective, retrospective, prospective, and tenseless. The moods are the usual indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and optative. The tenses are present, past, and future and are marked differently for the perfective aspect.
Syllables are mostly CV with some CVC and CVV.
