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

From:J. Barefoot <ataiyu@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 15:37
>From: Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...> > >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. > [ Asiteya ] Conlang name > [ Jennifer Barefoot ] Conlang author > [ Jennifer Barefoot ] Your name > >Put an X between the brackets for one choice for each of the following >questions. >Q. 2 > [ ] I - verb-initial (VSO) > [x ] II - verb-medial (SVO) > [ ] III - verb-final (SOV) > >Q. 3 > [ x ] Pr - prepositional > [ ] Po - postpositional > >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.) > [Asiteya may not be the best sample for a poll like this; it uses >different word orders to mark tense, though the underlying, default word >order is SVO. It's just about exclusiely right-branching. And attributive >adjectves are generally genetive nouns.] > >I'll close the balloting in one week. > >Best regards, > >Jeffrey Henning >Perseus SurveySolutions for the Web >Fast, Easy, Professional Web & E-mail Surveys >Download your free trial today! -- http://www.perseus.com/ >
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