Re: isolating conlangs

Leon Lin wrote:
> I am, in fact my goal is to make it completly isolating, no "morphology" at
> all. Sometimes I wonder if agglutinating and isolating are really two
> different things, I mean you could just define a word to include surrounding
> particles and then your isolating language has magically transformed into an
> agglutinating one!
>
>   -Leon
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> MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote: Most of the conlangs I've seen here have complex morphologies, but is
> anyone
> working with isolating languages, a la Chinese or Vietnamese?
>
> stevo
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That may be exactly how it works.  I've worked on a project that started
out fully isolating, and then many of the prepositions, pronouns, etc.
were merged into nearby words, making it quite agglutinative.  Throw in
some aggressive sound changes, and they collapse down into inflections.
Do some more, and they are subsumed entirely, making it isolating again.