Re: Conlang Typology Survey

On Tue, 20 May 2003 08:43:11 -0700 Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
writes:
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for Rokbeigalmki:

> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> 2. Word order
> b. SVO
> g. free
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default is SVO, but anything else can be used for emphasis.

> 3. adposition/noun order
> b. preposition - noun
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
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Both... however, if the adjective comes second, it must agree with the
noun in terms of definiteness, number, and gender.

> 5. genitive/noun order
> b. noun - genitive
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generally.

> 6. relative clause/noun order
> b. noun - rel. clause
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> b. aux verb - main verb
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
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either.

> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
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Not sure what this means...
Rokbeigalmki uses "construct compounds" like Hebrew, i.e.
"house-(of-the)-person"

> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
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i think.

> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> 12. script
> c. con-script
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transliteration schemes for various natscripts also exist and are fun to
use.

> and some free answer questions:
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
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four - male, female, epicene, neuter

> 14. number of cases
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eh... simple prepositions/case-prefixes:
TA' : in, inside
KA' : as, like, similar to
BA' : between
GA' : that, which, who [relative clause introducer]
FA' : for, on behalf of
SA' : with, together with, next to
SHA': [direct object marker]
HA' : [question marker]
TZA': of
JA' : without, lacking
RA' : outside of
LA' : about, on top of
YA' : by, by means of, using, with
WA' : to
NA' : under
NGA': from, than

> 15. number of phonemes
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29 consonants, 16 vowels/diphthongs

> 16. lexicon size
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somewheres between a few hundred and a thousand.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "aru"