On Tuesday 20 May 2003 4:43 pm, you 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:
>
Will it generate any output? I seem to fill in one of these questionnaires 3
or 4 times a year, but never see any product or summary.
Anyways, the answers from the Gevey jury are:
> 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
>
heading towards a
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
>
g
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
>
b
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
>
b
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
>
b
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
>
neither - relative clauses can float free within their host clause
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
>
b
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
>
b
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
>
?
> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> b. ergative/absolutive
> c. split ergative
> d. other
>
a
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
>
a
> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
>
a and c
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
>
2 genders are available, but aren't used to separate words into distinct
groups. "Status" is a more important concept in Gevey than gender
> 14. number of cases
>
for nouns - 7
for pronouns - 10
> 15. number of phonemes
>
52
> 16. lexicon size
>
heading towards 900 this week
> that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your conlangs
> look?
>
More on Gevey can be found at http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/index.html
Rik, knee deep.