Re: Conlang book?

In a message dated 3/10/01 12:02:29 AM, LISTSERV@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:

>It's not that I don't want to do it - in fact I want to do it very
>much - but would it be possible to see an example of what someone has
>already done? I'm very bad at writing "basic summaries" and "short
>overviews" from scratch, and I don't know what exactly should go into
>a "description of the morphology".
I've made an outline which you could base yours on, with modifications, if
you want. It's at
http://www15.brinkster.com/mgreenlee/conlangbook/outline.html. There is also
a progress chart at
http://www15.brinkster.com/mgreenlee/conlangbook/progress.html.

I will e-mail you a grammar which has already been written, so you have an
example.

>Also, how long should a sample of text be, and how short is a short
>lexicon? I have about 1800 different words, not counting obvious
>compounds, and it's hard to choose a representative selection.
For the sample of text, a few sentences is what I had in mind, though you can
use whatever size seems best. For the lexicon, I only meant it to be a sample
of a few basic words, maybe 200 at most; if you want I'll send you a list of
English words and you can provide the translations.

>And how many words/pages do you expect the whole of it to be?
I would guess it will be around 200-300 pages (trade paperback size), since
some of the grammars are long.