Re: Conlang Typology Survey
| From: | JS Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 20:49 |
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Here's responses for Yivrian and Hiksilipsi.
> > 1. morphological type
Yivrian: a. agglutinative
Hiksilipsi: c. polysynthetic
> > 2. Word order
Yivrian: b. SVO
Hiksilipsi: a. SOV
> > 3. adposition/noun order
I assume by this you mean the position between an adposition and the NP
that it governs (and not the position between an NP and a PP modifying
it). In that case:
Yivrian: b. preposition - noun
Hiksi: a. noun - postposition
> > 4. adjective/noun order
Yivrian: b. noun - adj
Hiksilipsi: a. adj - noun
> > 5. genitive/noun order
Yivrian: b. noun - genitive
Hiksi: a. genitive - noun
> > 6. relative clause/noun order
Yivrian: b. noun - rel. clause
Hiksi: a. rel. clause - noun
> > 7. main verb/aux verb order
Hiksi: b. aux verb - main verb
Yivrian has no auxiliary verbs.
> > 8. adverb/verb order
Hiksi: a. adv - verb
Yivrian is highly variable with respect to this.
> > 9. compounding type
Yivrian: a. head-last compounding
Hiksilipsi: b. head-first compounding
> > 10. case type
Yivrian: a. nominative/accusative
Hiksi: b. ergative/absolutive
> > 11. tense system
Yivrian: a and b.
Hiksi: b, mostly
> > 12. script
Both: c. con-script
Yivrian has an abjad, Hiksilipsi a syllabary
> > and some free answer questions:
> > 13. number of genders/noun classes
Yivrian: No grammatical gender, but fairly consistent derivational schema utilizing 5
basic noun classes.
Hiksilipsi: 3 noun classes: Animate, Inanimate, Intangible
> > 14. number of cases
Yivrian: 5
Hiksilispi: 3
> > 15. number of phonemes
Yivrian: 7 vowels, 17 consonants
Hiksilipsi: 4 vowels, 16 consonants
> > 16. lexicon size
Yivrian: Hard to estimate: 1500?
Hiksi: small
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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