Garrett Jones <conlang@...> wrote:
> 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:
These answers are for Gladilatian.
> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
> c. polysynthetic
> d. isolating
a, mostly
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
Word order is very strict, but since Gladilatian has no verbs none of
a-f apply.
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
b -- Prepositions are prefixes.
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
a
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
a, although there is no genitive as such; possesion and similar concepts
are expressed through prepositions
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
a
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
n/a
> 8. adverb/verb order
n/a
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
a
> 10. case type
n/a
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
a -- Tenses are attached to nouns.
> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
c, with a canonical mapping to the Roman alphabet.
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
none, as such
> 14. number of cases
none
> 15. number of phonemes
19 or 22, depending on how you count them (by traditional analysis 19,
but three of them can be considered pairs of phonemes)
> 16. lexicon size
There are currently 435 entries in my lexicon file. Most of these are
morphemes, although some of them are compounds.
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