Re: Conlang Typology Survey

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From: Garrett Jones
Sent: 5/20/2003 8:43:11 AM
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Conlang Typology Survey

My only real language is Sherall, a derivative of Yiddish adopted by a highly
genetically engineered derivative of humanity.

> multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
> sense for your conlang.
>
> 1. morphological type
> b. fusional/inflecting
> 2. Word order
None of the above? It's a Germanic language - it's verb second. Usually SVO,
I guess.

> 3. adposition/noun order
> b. preposition - noun
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
More the second; the definite article is conjugated for the genetive
class, but the noun also gets a 's on it.

> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
? Don't know yet.

> 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
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> 12. script
> a. latin
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
Three genders: das, dar and dash.

> 14. number of cases
Nominative, Dative, Genitive and Accusitive. 4.

> 15. number of phonemes
[D, T, s, z, S, Z, X, G, h], [l, r, K], [j], [n, N, J], [a, e, i, o, u]

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> 16. lexicon size
Less then 50 words.