"Reversed Japanese" as a model for a conlang syntax?

["Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!pucc.PRINCETON.EDU!shoulson>]

Hmmm.  Interesting idea you have there, Bruce.  Looking at it using ideas
from Lojban, I'm not sure it'll hold water:  You'd want markers for just
about every "modal" (BAI) and then some.  I fear that may start to get
infinite.  But not necessarily; the Japanese do fine with their finite set
and the language is still fairly clear.  Perhaps a large but finite set
will do.

I'll have to try to find a good way to talk about this; I need some
examples.  I think there are some problems, but it's still worth
discussing.

As to your different ways of expressing "the house" when it existed only
after the action was finished vs. only before vs. not necessarily ever etc.
I seem to think that Loglan, or at least one of jimc's variants (nalgol?)
had distinctions like that.  I get this from comments on an old story jimc
wrote in Loglan.  Bob, jimc, can you enlighten us?