Re: Structure of documents about your conlangs

Quoting Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:

> --- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
> > If you're *really* advanced in making your conlang,
> > having a section for discourse analysis
>
> What does "discourse analysis" mean in this instance?
> Eventually, I'd like to have a "Compleat Kernow
> Grammar".
Here's a rather concise definition:

  "Roughly speaking, it refers to attempts to study the organisation
  of language above the sentence or above the clause, and therefore
  to study larger linguistic units, such as conversational exchanges
  or written texts. It follows that discourse analysis is also
  concerned with language use in social contexts, and in particular
  with interaction or dialogue between speakers."

I got that here:

<http://bank.rug.ac.be/da/da.htm>

> > including extended selections of text from differing
> > genres of speech,
>
> The current Kerno grammar has different sections like
> "The Possessive Function" (of the oblique case), which
> has a number of examples from different registers or
> modes of language. Is that what you mean?
Yeah, generally speaking.  Discourse analysis takes a broader,
more sociolinguistic viewpoint than formal ideas about
phonology or morphosyntax.  Figuring out what kinds of registers
your language has, and in what circumstances they're appropriate
seems to me well within that range.

> > as well as a full Conlang-Natlang / Natlang-Conlang
> > lexicon in the back.
>
> Keep dreaming! Though I guess it depends on how many
> words constitute a "full" lexicon.
Well, we can always hope :)

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