#lcc10 Bruce Arthur - Life Without Adjectives and Adverbs in Ketoshaya

details & slides: https://conlang.org/lcc10/#arthur
speaker: Reddit u/FelixSchwarzenberg

Ketoshaya is a conlang that I have been working on for over a year that has about 1800 dictionary-defined words. Ketoshaya lacks adverbs or adjectives as a separate part of speech. In my talk, I discuss the various strategies that Ketoshaya uses for adverbial and adjectival functions, including (1) agglutination, (2) comitative nouns for adjectives, (3) comitative, instrumental, and locative nouns for adverbs (“The Great Chain of Adverbial Noun Cases”) – each case has a somewhat different connotation when used as an adverb), and (4) stative verbs.

I will also briefly discuss my personal reasons for making a conlang “without adverbs or adjectives” and discuss some natlang inspirations and analogues.

References

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U-SfowNMhMeWa-NaARzJaYye9SW0dXliS4csVMjVBLc/edit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitative_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locative_case

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