Re: Conlang Typology Survey [was Word-Order Types]

Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> >It would be interesting to see what the most common word order type
> >is in our respective conlangs. Anyone up to the challenge of doing
> >the statistics?
>
> Yes, stats are easy with my Real Life magnum .  If you want to participate,
> just e-mail this to me.
>
> Q. 1
> We are doing a typology of conlangs.  You can profile a favorite conlang or
> profile your own, but if you profile your own, please profile only the
> language you are currently working on most.  (Otherwise, if someone has
> created 10 languages with the same typology, they will bias the results.)
> Type your answers in the brackets.
>    [Degaspregos ] Conlang name
>    [Thomas Wier] Conlang author
>    [Thomas Wier] Your name
>
> Put an X between the brackets for one choice for each of the following
> questions.
> Q. 2
>    [   ]   I   - verb-initial (VSO)
>    [   ]   II  - verb-medial (SVO)
>    [X]   III - verb-final (SOV)
>
> Q. 3
>    [X]   Pr  - prepositional
>    [   ]   Po  - postpositional
>
> Q. 4
>    [   ]   NG  - head noun before a genitive modifier
>    [X]   GN  - genitive modifier before a head noun
>
> Q. 5
>    [   ]   NA  - noun before an attributive adjective
>    [X]   AN  - attributive adjective before a houn
(Technically, this is supposed to break Greenbergian
Universals, but it's what's happened in most IE languages,
so it fits Deg. well)

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