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- | === Proposal 1 === | + | < |
+ | # Correlatives | ||
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+ | ## Proposal 1 | ||
Naturalistic, | Naturalistic, | ||
- | == Advantages == | ||
- | * Easier to guess the meaning of a word | ||
- | == Disadvantages == | ||
- | * Harder to learn, as there are more words to be memorised | ||
- | === Proposal 2 === | + | ### Advantages |
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+ | - Easier to guess the meaning of a word | ||
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+ | ### Disadvantages | ||
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+ | - Harder to learn, as there are more words to be memorised | ||
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+ | ## Proposal 2 | ||
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+ | Schematic, with each correlative being predictable from its meaning by a combination of two words, along the lines of Esperanto' | ||
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+ | ### Advantages | ||
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+ | - Perhaps easier to learn, as there are fewer words to be memorised | ||
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+ | ### Disadvantages | ||
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+ | - Somewhat unintuitive as this is less naturalistic and less reflective of what the reference langs do | ||
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+ | ## Proposal 3 | ||
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+ | Schematic, with all of the correlatives predicable from their function, but more reflective of the reference langs. This is possible due to some schematic-ness already existing for historical reasons. For example, in English, most interrogatives start _wh-_ and most definites start with _th-_. Some locatives end in -ere, and some correlatives about things end in _-at_. This accurately predicts _" | ||
- | Schematic, with each correlative being predictable from its meaning by a combination of two words, along the lines of Esperanto' | + | ### Advantages |
- | == Advantages == | + | - Perhaps |
- | * Somewhat unintuitive as this is less naturalistic and less reflective of what the reference langs do | + | |
- | == Disadvantages == | ||
- | * Perhaps easier to learn, as there are fewer words to be memorised | ||
- | === Proposal 3 === | + | ### Disadvantages |
- | Schematic, with all of the correlatives predicable from their function, but more reflective of the reference | + | - The system is not perfectly followed in the reference |
- | == Advantages == | + | </ |
- | * Perhaps the best of both worlds - easier to learn and easier to recognise | + | |
- | == Disadvantages == | ||
- | * The system is not perfectly followed in the reference languages (" |