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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 18:55
   >  Will it generate any output? I seem to fill in one of these questionnaires 3
   >  or 4 times a year, but never see any product or summary.

i will create a summary of the results. i like compiling results like this :~)

   >  > 9. compounding type
   >  > a. head-last compounding
   >  > b. head-first compounding
   >  >
   >  ?

this is a question of whether the head of a compound comes last in the compound or
first in the compound. For example, a car that drives on the ground is
"ground-car" for head-last compounding (which is what english uses) and
"car-ground" for head-first compounding.

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Rik <rik@...>