I've been promised by the Chief at least one, and possibly two, full days this weekend to finish off and post this revision of Konya. Sorry for the long delay....
At last, I have updated the web site with the so-called Konya2 version...formally, this is simply Konya Version 037. I've updated these files: sample...
Here are few of my burning questions or issues: 1) "kon-pan-tixun-wi" for 'student' is way ugly. Do we really need to build 'learn' from 'teach' or vice versa?...
I generally feel that head-initial is a bit more logical than head-final. However, I'm considering moving Konya towards head-final (except for subordinate ...
The new version of Konya moves away from bound morphemes. Even common suffixes like "wi" and "yu" (noun and verb conversion markers) are compounded rather than...
I'm starting to believe that Steve Rice's recommendation is wise: that Konya should mandatorily distinguish singular and plural pronouns, at least for some...
... to ... Rick Morneau has a lot to say about "opposites," and while some of it is hair-splitting, the opposite of teaching would be sucking knowledge out of...
... final. However, ... subordinate ... it would ... It's possible to have head-initial compounds; it just seems weird. ... an ... In that ... But then you...
... markers) are ... supply of short ... comma and ... cardinality ... off to a ... I experimented with a completely unbound language a time or so. It's ...
... that Konya should ... some situations. My ... speak' is not plural in the ... between 'one' and 'more- ... having a word that ... is probably exactly ... ...
... Okay. I'd like to allow separate forms to develop naturally but where a "pan-" form is (a) a monstrosity, (b) very frequently used, or (c) not truly...
... The reason I say that is that the headword of a compound is likely to carry the right kind of grammar marker for the compound as a whole. So "xelen-paipi"...
... I did try to have the conversion suffixes and their free counterparts be semantically related in some way, but honestly, it's pure artifice. I just need...
I've updated the Babel text. I incorporated the general first person plural pronoun "min-min-wi" and changed the third person pronoun to "kusi". I also changed...
Up to now I've avoided special treatment for ditransitives, figuring that the second object pretty much needed a preposition to establish the relationship...
In a much earlier incarnation of Konya I had allowed the form CSV for functionals. Later, that form didn't work so well with the developing morphology and I...
... and in other ... played by the second (or ... I guess I should say -- as ... the woman', the semantic role ... clarify the verb-object ... alternative...
... I've decided to ditch the overt ditransitive idea. I'll use a functional as a one-syllable generic preposition, but verbs will take typical prepositions to...
... Just because "put" and "steal" don't have ditransitive forms in English, doesn't mean they could not have such in a conlang. Indeed, depending on the...
... Quite so. Just as in natlangs, I doubt I'll be able to avoid some ditransitives carrying more information about their secondary object roles ('to give')...
... No; if it stayed perfect, that would mean no one was using it. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm ...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field...
... need ... this ... of it ... over ... is ... malinstrui ... where a "pan-" form is (a) a ... representing a 'binary' opposite, I'll ... Seconded! Frequency...
... head- ... think ... weird. ... to carry the right kind ... yellow-{noun.marker}' > ... desirable. Let's parse a sentence of Malay: "Burung kakak tua itu...
... in ... Hi Larry, Can you think of any natlang that uses words of more than two syllables for here and there, this and that? I can't. Ignoring nouns, most...
... <jimhenry1973@g...> ... object ... burden ... stay ... Look on it another way. Even tho many natlangs have ditransitive verbs, most of them can express...
Hi, Can I put my hand up for a category or two? Those I'd most like to have a go at include numbers 10 and 11 18, 19, and 21 26, 25, 24 and 28 35 and 36. ...
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