Teilnehmer's engelang

No name yet. Engelang by Teilnehmer translated by Rgj40q. Originally published there.

Grammar

All words are equal and are considered binary predicates. It's not necesary for both arguments to be involved in semantics, but formally we count that everything is binary - each word can have a subject and an object.

A clause consists of a mandatory predicate word and from zero to two argument clauses. Text is a sequence of clauses.

The word consists of a root and three endings:

• ending of valence:
  • e - valency 0 (there are no argument clauses after the word)
  • a - valency 1 (there is one argument clause after the word)
  • o - valence 2 (there are two argument clauses after the word)
• ending of order:
  • Ø - arguments go in direct order (subject, object)
  • i - arguments go in reverse order (object, subject)
• ending of return value:
  • s - the predicate itself is returned
  • Ø - the first argument is returned
  • n - the second argument is returned
  • t - both arguments are returned

That's kinda all, folks.

Examples

The root 'grand' means 'subject is larger than object'.

The root 'hom' means 'subject is human'.

The root 'dom' means 'subject is house'.

The clause 'home' means 'human'. The ending '-eØØ' means that there are no explicit argument clauses, but the subject is returned. I.e. the clause meaning is the subject of 'hom', which is human. Same is true for the clause 'dome' meaning 'house'.

Grandos dome home
'House is larger than human.'

The ending '-oØs' means that two clauses are expected in the direct order (subject, object), and the clause itself is returned, not one of arguments. Then there is a subject clause ('dome') and an object clause ('home').

Grandois dome home
'House is smaller than human.'

Here the ending '-ois' contains '-i-', indicating the reverse order of the arguments.

Grandas dome
'House is large.'

The ending '-aØs' indicates that there is one argument clause expected and it will be a subject. The object is dropped. The literal meaning of the clause is something like 'House is larger than something implied, but unspecified.' Similarly,

Grandais dome
'House is small.'

Here the argument clause is an object, and a subject is implied.

Granda dome
'large house'

In contrast to the clause 'Grandas dome' the return value is not the clause itself but its argument, 'house'.

Grandai dome
'small house'

Grandos grandai dome granda home
'Small house is larger than a large human.'

Here the argument clauses contain more than one word. The clause borders are obvious from its valencies.