Re: Structure of documents about your conlangs

 --- Roberto Suarez Soto skrzypszy:

>         Do you have a "standard" structure for documents explaining your
> conlangs? I.e.: first pronunciation and phonology, then grammar; inside
> of grammar, first the verbs and then the rules relative to nouns, etc.
Yes, I do, although it's different from the example you give (as a matter of
fact, I've never seen the verbs coming before the nouns).

- INTRODUCTION
  (History, conculture, classification of the language, dialects etc.)
- PHONOLOGY
  (Alphabet, orthography, pronunciation, phonology)
- MORPHOLOGY
  * Articles
  * Nouns
  * Adjectives
  * Pronouns (pers., refl., rec., poss., dem., rel., interr., indef.)
  * Numerals
  * Verbs
  * Prepositions
  * Conjunctions
- SYNTAX (Questions, word order, etc.)
- VOCABULARY
- SAMPLE TEXTS

Furthermore, it it always useful to have a section about word building: how can
adjectives be derived from nouns, nouns from verbs, etc. Usually, I don't make
a seperate chapter for that, but divide it over the other sections instead.
That's largely a mater of taste, though.

Jan


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