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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Camilla Drefvenborg <elmindreda@...>
Date:Saturday, May 24, 2003, 22:13
Garrett Jones de ortekera:

> 1. morphological type
b. fusional/inflecting
> 2. Word order
a. SOV though I guess it could be rather free if someone felt like it. the different word classes' suffixes are quite distinct.
> 3. adposition/noun order
b. preposition - noun
> 4. adjective/noun order
a. adj - noun
> 5. genitive/noun order
a. genitive - noun (with a copula)
> 6. relative clause/noun order
a. rel. clause - noun
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
b. aux verb - main verb
> 8. adverb/verb order
a. adv - verb
> 9. compounding type
a. head-last compounding
> 10. case type
a. nominative/accusative (basically...)
> 11. tense system
a. time (past/present/future)
> 12. script
c. con-script (cursive)
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
one gender, or in other words, no gender system. eranne nalasta me terasta de menanar.
> 14. number of cases
three. though the last one is... well... flexible. or perhaps not sufficiently studied. take your pick. suffice to say this number may change in the near future.
> 15. number of phonemes
twelve consonants and ten vowels, making a grand total of twenty-two. I don't count allophones yet.
> 16. lexicon size
difficult to say, due to the ease (and commonality) of moving stems between word classes. around three hundred would be an educated guess. some seventy roots and ten derivational affixes are noted in my root-book.
> so, how do your conlangs look?
small? --- Camilla ana de ese limine ninda yastiar