Re: Conlang Typology Survey [was Word-Order Types]
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 12, 1999, 17:20 |
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At 23:43 11/11/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> comunu:
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>> NG - head noun before a genitive modifier
>> GN - genitive modifier before a head noun
>
>While I know what a noun and a genitive is, I don't know what a genitive
>modifier is. Can someone give me a definition and a couple examples?
>
>>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.
> [ Kelen ] Conlang name
> [ SS ] Conlang author
> [ Sylvia Sotomayor ] Your name
>
>Put an X between the brackets for one choice for each of the following
>questions.
>Q. 2
> [ x ] I - verb-initial (VSO)
> [ x ] II - verb-medial (SVO)
> [ ] III - verb-final (SOV)
> That is, if one counts my relationals as verbs, then some of them are
type I and some are type II
>Q. 3
> [ x ] Pr - prepositional
> [ x ] Po - postpositional
>a little of both. probably because this is still in flux
>Q. 4
> [ x ] NG - head noun before a genitive modifier
> [ ] GN - genitive modifier before a head noun
>
>Q. 5
> [ x ] NA - noun before an attributive adjective
> [ ] AN - attributive adjective before a houn
>
>Q. 6
>Enter any comments or notes here, as much text as you want. (They will be
>shared with the list when the stats are reported.)
> [ see under each question ]
>
>I'll close the balloting in one week.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Jeffrey Henning
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