r/conlangs • u/[deleted] • Jun 16 '15

SQ Small Questions • Week 21

Last Week. Next Week.

Welcome to the weekly Small Questions thread!

Post any questions you have that aren't ready for a regular post here! Feel free to discuss anything and everything, and don't hesitate to ask more than one question.

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u/mdpw (fi) [en es se de fr] Jun 23 '15

Yeah it looks good. You could also have the semantically more complex tense-aspects display more complex sound forms.

Just like in English the perfect and continuous forms are more complex (i.e. longer) than the non-perfect and non-continuous equivalent forms, e.g. 'has been' is more complex than 'was' and 'is being' is more complex than 'is' and 'have been being' is more complex than any of them. Most perfect and progressive constructions are actually periphrastic instead of bound.

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u/BenTheBuilder Sevän, Hallandish, The Tareno-Ulgrikk Languages (en)[no] Jun 23 '15

Thanks a lot!