Questions tagged [word-order]
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Are there things that commonly end sentences other than verbs?
I'm copy-pasting this from the linguistics board because someone recommended that and I'm not getting any replies there. I'm not expecting much given the luck I've been having on here, but w/e.
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Subordinate Clauses In OSV
So, I'm working on my very first conlang, which happens to be OSV (object-subject-verb word order). But I seem to have run into something of a roadblock. How could I handle clauses such as, for ...
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Does the grammatical and polysynthetic structure of my language preclude poetry?
My conlang, called Pandemonic for now, is a language with OSV word order, that uses synthetic prefixes and postfixes to both nouns and verbs. Only adjectives and adverbs, which always follow the word ...
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How do you figure out sentence structures in a conlang (or even when natlangs emerge)?
For example, the different types of language:
Pidgin
Creole
Standard natural language
Conlang
It seems we could create a stepping-stone map going from pidgin -> "stereotypical natlang" ...
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