Re: Conlang Typology Survey
| From: | M. Astrand <ysimiss@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 22, 2003, 14:02 |
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>From: Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
>Subject: [CONLANG] Conlang Typology Survey
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>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 Mamqian
II Liz
>1. morphological type
I A) Agglutinative.
II I guess that would be isolating with some agglutination and fusion - D)
& A) & B).
>2. Word order
I C) VSO, changes extremely easily for emphasis.
II B) SVO.
>3. adposition/noun order
I A) Noun - adposition.
May change for emphasis or when an adposition would otherwise end the sentence.
II No adpositions, though some may later appear. This far only infixes.
>4. adjective/noun order
I B) Noun - adj. Changeable.
II B) Noun - adj. Adjectives are suffixed to nouns.
>5. genitive/noun order
I B) Noun - genitive. Changeable.
II No genitives yet.
>6. relative clause/noun order
I A) & B) That depends. Relative clause comes before noun if it begins the
main clause and after the noun, if it ends it; i.e. relative clauses in the
middle of the main clause are avoided.
II No relative clauses (yet?).
>7. main verb/aux verb order
I A) & B) Depends. The modal auxiliaries for subjunctive and potential come
after the verb. Other auxiliaries come before it.
II No auxiliaries (yet?).
>8. adverb/verb order
I B) Verb - adv. Changeable.
II B) Verb - adv. Adverbs are just adjectives suffixed to verbs.
>9. compounding type
I A) & B) Both. There are some differences in usage and style and in how
they are formed.
II B?) Not settled yet. Probably head-first.
>10. case type
I A) Nominative/accusative.
II D) Other. Active, fluid-S, though through word order instead of cases.
>11. tense system
>a. time (past/present/future)
>b. aspect
>c. realis/irrealis
I A) & B)
II Verbs don't inflect for any of these, though I'm planning to have something
aspect-like in them. Time is expressed with particles.
>12. script
>a. latin
>b. other existing natlang script
>c. con-script
I C) Camzic script.
II A).
>13. number of genders/noun classes
I No grammatical gender.
II No grammatical gender, but there are clear remainings of three in the
ancestral language: animate, inanimate, abstract.
>14. number of cases
I 20.
II Two: direct case for subject and object, indirect for everything else.
Indirect case is formed by consonant mutation. There are also case-like infixes,
but as they require the noun to be in indirect case, I think of them as something
less than a case.
>15. number of phonemes
I 8 vowels, all of which may be short or long (or possibly overlong in the
Eastern dialect). 19-20 consonants, depending on the dialect, many of which
can be long.
II 6 vowels plus phonemic length. 19 consonants.
>16. lexicon size
I Somewhat over 500, and growing slowly.
II *quick estimation* 50-ish.
>
>that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your conlangs
>look?
>--
>Garrett Jones
>
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