Re: isolating conlangs

On 2/20/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/20/2007 4:17:02 PM Central Standard Time,
> jimhenry1973@GMAIL.COM writes:
> > http://archives.conlang.info/ghau/goerthin/wuanphukhuen.html
> >
> > It hasn't progressed very far, unfortunately -- I have a lexicon with
> > about 200 root words and a corpus of about 50 or 60 sample
> > sentences, but haven't worked on it since last summer.  I started
> > writing up its grammar but haven't posted that anywhere yet.
> >
>
> "I'm probably goingto use frequency analyses on my Toki Pona corpus and my
> gzbcorpus, an already available list of the most common morphemesin Esperanto,
> and the list of "semantic primes" from the Wikipediaarticle on "Natural
> semantic metalanguage" as sources for ideas,along with the first few sections of Rick
> Harrison's ULD."
>
> Have you considered using the Swadesh lists?
I think I did look at the Swadesh lists, but vaguely recall that I didn't
take anything from them that wasn't in the other sources.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry