Questions tagged [parts-of-speech]
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What are mandatory words groups a language have to have?
I'm creating Merovian (meroo) constructed language since about 2004 and I have yet to settle down on standartisation. Merovian currently has 5 word groups and "other words".
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How do you remove the confusion in a conlang when creating and distinguishing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and particles?
I am trying to implement a conlang and am confused how we as humans are able to distinguish nouns, verbs, adjectives, particles, etc. in a sentence. I get that word order is a factor, as well as the ...
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Are Esperanto's part of speech endings actually beneficial?
I was wondering if they really serve any practical advantage.
For one, what they mean depends on what the innate part of speech of the root is, which isn't marked except through the part of speech ...
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Languages where the part of speech of a root is "fixed"?
By way of introduction, this question is about a quirk of Esperanto, but there is a general conlang question at the end, I promise.
In Esperanto, every root has a natural grammatical part of speech, ...
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