Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Hi, all....

multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
sense for your conlang.

1. morphological type

GOESK           inflecting
PALO            inflecting
NU              inflecting
CINJE           agglutinative

2. Word order

GOESK           SVO
PALO            OSV
NU              SOV
CINJE           SOV

3.      adposition/noun order

GOESK           ADP. N
PALO            N ADP.
NU              ADP. N
CINJE           N ADP.

4. adjective/noun order

GOESK           ADJ. N
PALO            ADJ. N
NU              ADJ. N
CINJE           ADJ  N

5. genitive/noun order

GOESK           N GEN
PALO            N GEN
NU              N GEN
CINJE           GEN N

6. relative clause/noun order

GOESK           N REL
PALO            N REL
NU              N REL
CINJE           (relative clauses are internal)

7.      main verb/aux verb order

GOESK           AUX V
PALO            (no auxiliaries)
NU              AUX V
CINJE           AUX V

8.      adverb/verb order

For all four languages, adverbs go all over.


9.      compounding type

        don't know.

10. case type

GOESK           NOM-ACC
PALO            NOM-ACC
NU              NOM-ACC
CINJE           other


11. tense-aspect-mood

GOESK           affixes!  mood and aspect expressed by auxiliary verbs.
PALO            no tenses;  past vs. present indicated by word order;  mood expressed
either
                in inflected syntactic particles or by certain locatives
NU              particles separate from the verb express tense-aspect-mood
CINJE           affixes!

12. script

        all use latin scripts

13.

GOESK:          2 numbers, 2 genders, 4 cases
PALO:           6 numbers, 0 genders, 3 cases
NU:             2 numbers, 0 genders, 0 cases
CINJE:  3 numbers, 0 genders, lots and lots of lots of cases


Jim Grossmann

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