--- risto@... wrote:

> Pandunia's grammar can produce a wide selection of
> sentences from the same
> material. The speakers are free to select the word
> order that pleases
> them. This freedom comes at a very low cost because
> the pairing principle
> is simple and it doesn't require any markers.

I'm not exactly sure, but I think there is some
principle that you are following (and that I follow in
NP as well). It's something like "proximity" but
that's not the right word. It is a principle, maybe of
universal grammar, that words that are related in the
sentence are usually put close to one another. So it
is usual to say something like:

The man eat fish in the barn.

or

In the barn the man fish eat.

But:

Fish the man in the barn eat.

Is less usual.

But I forget the exact name of that.

Jens Wilkinson
Neo Patwa language: http://patwa.pbwiki.com



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