On Tue, 20 May 2003 08:43:11 -0700 Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
writes:
> I'm curious about the distribution of the types of conlangs on this
> list.
> So, a survey. Maybe it will generate some on-topic discussions.
> Answer it
> for your respective conlangs:
>
> multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that
> makes
> sense for your conlang.
>
> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
> c. polysynthetic
> d. isolating
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: c.
ðjassa: b.
farzaiyai: b.
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
kinsi rorotan: Noun(s) Verb Pronoun(s)
kontoko: varies but isn't free
ðjassa: b.
farzaiyai: b.
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: b.
farzaiyai: a.
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: a.
farzaiyai: b.
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: a.
farzaiyai: b.
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: a.
farzaiyai: b.
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: b.
farzaiyai: b.
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: free
farzaiyai: a.
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
kinsi rorotan: b.
kontoko: varies
ðjassa: a.
farzaiyai: b.
> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> b. ergative/absolutive
> c. split ergative
> d. other
what in angamando is split ergative?
<just using a., b., and d.>
kinsi rorotan: d.
kontoko: d.
ðjassa: a.
farzaiyai: d.
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
kinsi rorotan: a. and b.
kontoko: a., b., and c.
ðjassa: c.
farzaiyai: a.
> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
kinsi rorotan: c.
kontoko: c.
ðjassa: b., c.
farzaiyai: c.
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
kinsi rorotan: 3 genders
kontoko: 13 genders, lots of noun classes...
ðjassa: 1
farzaiyai: 1
> 14. number of cases
kinsi rorotan:
kontoko: sort of hard to determine... different classes have different
sets of cases
ðjassa: 2
farzaiyai: 6
> 15. number of phonemes
kinsi rorotan: 20
kontoko: 12
ðjassa: about 19
farzaiyai: about 18
> 16. lexicon size
kinsi rorotan: about 300 (very rough estimate)
kontoko: about 1200
ðjassa: about 100
farzaiyai: about 100
> Garrett Jones
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and girls just lie."
-- anberlin - "foreign language"
"i put out disco's inferno in the early eighties
i would not be in a boy band, punk gets all the ladies
i could take the backstreet boys or hanson or n'sync
britney spears and ricky martin, we all think you stink"
-- trendy - "punk rocker"
"and i'm only gonna pierce my left ear
and i've been workin on this mustache all summer long
and my favorite band will always be tears for fears
and i'm gonna wear a pink tux to the prom"
-- relient k - "in love with the 80's"
"don't try to shut me up
don't try to put words in my mouth
i'm not about plastic skin
i gotta get out, i gotta get out, in"
-- (hed) P.E. - "blackout"
narav teraz' iroti
kojes krat erarota
kuna, ysivaz' entas
naradas krat zuny narav
kuraz dityvyszi, radyji, sa rodyji
dimokrosi zosa endas
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You do not believe them."
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