On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> ---- PART II Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001 ----
>
> Name of the participating conlang:
Chevraqis
> 2: Order of genitive (G), and noun (N)
> That is: Possessor/owner and possession/owned thing
> Is the order GN, NG or both?
Both, with a slight preference for GN.
> - With a suffix on the G, the N, both?
The G takes either the genitive case for alienable posession or locative
case for inalienable posession (locative is also used for places/times);
both are suffixes.
> 3: Order of adjective (A) and noun (N)
> Does the language have a closed class of adjectives?
No. There are a few "irregular" adjectives such as colors that might be
considered their own class if you really wanted them to.
> Regardless of being a separate class or not:
> How are they similar, how do they differ from verbs and nouns?
Triconsonantal morphology. The three classes are verb, adjective, and
noun; adjectives take further infixes the same way as verbs and are often
conjugated as verbs. However, they can be used as substantives or
modifiers by taking case-endings as per nouns. If held at gunpoint, I
would concede that adjectives are more verblike than nounlike.
> Can they take a copula (that is: need/don't need equivalent of "to be")?
Chevraqis is zero-copula.
YHL