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Re: Structure of documents about your conlangs

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Monday, September 9, 2002, 5:23
 --- 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 ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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