Staving Garrett Jones:
>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:
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>multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
>sense for your conlang.
My anwers are for Khangaþyagon. Its descendents are intended to differ.
>1. morphological type
>a. agglutinative
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>2. Word order
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>c. VSO
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>3. adposition/noun order
>a. noun - preposition
Postpositions are affixes in Khangaþyagon.
>4. adjective/noun order
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>b. noun - adj
With agreement of postpositions.
>5. genitive/noun order
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>b. noun - genitive
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>6. relative clause/noun order
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>b. noun - rel. clause
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>7. main verb/aux verb order
>a. main verb - aux verb
Modal verbs, such as exist, form compounds with the main verb. It's a bit
complex, and they don't follow the normal rules of compounding in every
respect. They can't really make up their minds whether they're roots or
affixes.
>8. adverb/verb order
>a. adv - verb
>b. verb - adv
Not yet fully decided. Either a or free.
>9. compounding type
>a. head-last compounding
except in the case of modal verbs, which follow the main verb.
>10. case type
>a. nominative/accusative
But Khangaþyagon's agglutinating system doesn't lend itself to description
in terms of cases. Subject and object are distinguished by word order.
>11. tense system
>a. time (past/present/future)
>b. aspect
Both tense and aspect are expressed.
>12. script
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>c. con-script
bukhstav runes.
>and some free answer questions:
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>13. number of genders/noun classes
None
>14. number of cases
N/A
>15. number of phonemes
About 40.
>16. lexicon size
Slowly increasing, never counted!
Pete