Quoting Garrett Jones <conlang@...>:
> 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:
I'm doing this for Tairezazh below - I might send in others later if that's OK.
> 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
a
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
Hm, default is SVO, but it can be reranged quite freely for emphasis, or simply
for euphony. So b and 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
b
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
No auxiliaries ...
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
b
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
I'm never getting comfortable with this terminology. The moddifying bit comes
first - that's a, isn't it?
> 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
c
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
1
> 14. number of cases
4
> 15. number of phonemes
31. /m/ is a bit odd, as it only contrasts with /n/ in initial position.
> 16. lexicon size
Hm, about 250 roots I think. With productive compounding and derivation, perhaps
approaching a thousand.
> that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your
> conlangs
> look?
> --
> Garrett Jones
>
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