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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 18:56
P = Palu f’Dule (nonhuman)
B = Bes Dis’z (nonhuman)
N = Nenshar (nonhuman)
L = Laafaah (nonhuman)
S = Shato (human)

>1. morphological type >a. agglutinative >b. fusional/inflecting >c. polysynthetic >d. isolating
P: a & b B: a N: a L: a & b S: b & d
>2. Word order >a. SOV >b. SVO >c. VSO >d. VOS >e. OVS >f. OSV >g. free
P: a B: b N: f & g L: b S: c
>3. adposition/noun order >a. noun - preposition >b. preposition – noun
P: b B: a N: a L: b S: b
>4. adjective/noun order >a. adj - noun >b. noun - adj
P: a & b B: a N: b L: a S: b
>5. genitive/noun order >a. genitive - noun >b. noun - genitive
P: b B: a N: b L: b S: b
>6. relative clause/noun order >a. rel. clause - noun >b. noun - rel. clause
P: a B: a N: a L: b S: b
>7. main verb/aux verb order >a. main verb - aux verb >b. aux verb - main verb
P: a B: neither N: a L: b S: b
>8. adverb/verb order >a. adv - verb >b. verb - adv
P: a B: a N: b L: either S: b
>9. compounding type >a. head-last compounding >b. head-first compounding
P: a B: a N: b L: neither S: neither
>10. case type >a. nominative/accusative >b. ergative/absolutive >c. split ergative >d. other
P: a B: b N: d L: d S: a
>11. tense system >a. time (past/present/future) >b. aspect >c. realis/irrealis
P: a B: b N: a L: b S: a
>12. script >a. latin >b. other existing natlang script >c. con-script
Default to latin though I’ve played with s script for P.
>13. number of genders/noun classes
P: 3 – living, non-living, sentient B: 0 N: 2 – animate, inanimate L: 2 – personal, non-personal S: 0
>14. number of cases
P: 0 – subject and object indicated by free morephemes B: 10 N: 8 L: 5 S: 0 – subject, object and oblique indicated by free morephemes
>15. number of phonemes
P: 32 B: 72 N: 34 L: 46 S: 47
>16. lexicon size
P: ~300 words B: ~300 roots N: ~200 words L: ~100 roots S: ~100 words _______________________________________________ Alterum animi mei quaerens natus anctus harpyia et stoico Elysiis triste praepalor. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail