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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Luca Mangiat</b>
on <!--date-->22:12 7/9/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="461.html">Language evolution and the icëlani</a> posted by Irgend Jemand</b> on 15:00 7/7/02
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Hi!
<p>It's been quite a long time since my latest posting...
<p>Some time ago I was wondering about a language violating some universally
accepted characters of human languages. I was particularly thinking about a
language with fixed word order but free morphemic location within the same
word (or, at least, within the same noun/verb phrase). Most of human
languages- at least agglutinating and inflecting languages- have, on the
other hand, a quite free word order and an extreemely fixed morphemic
order). For instance, in the Italian sentence:
<p><i>Le ragazze mangiavano mele</i><br>
The girls ate apples
<p>which can be morphemically analysed as:
<br><i>le-ragazz-e mangi-av-ano mel-e</i>
<br>artpl-girl-pl eat-impf-3pl apple-pl
<p>the morphemes within each word have an unchangeable order. In my
experimental language the order of the morphemes presents no constraints,
while the word order is fixed. Such a grammar, when applied to Italian,
could generate the following sentences (amongst many others):
<p><i>eragazzle avmangiano emel
<br>ragazzlee anoavmangi mele
<br>leragazze mangianoav emel</i>
<br>...
<p>Such a grammar would require, however, a redefinition of the concept 'word',
I suppose... what do you think?
<p>Luca
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Interesting idea; I think you've succeeded in finding something that
reverses an apparent universal... at least, I've never heard of a natural
language with completely free morpheme order. I'd want to know what
stylistic or semantic effect the variious orders have, though.
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