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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>
Date:Thursday, May 29, 2003, 13:06
Mau Rauszer   <maurauser@...> 2003.05.29. 14:57:36 +2h-kor írta:

Mau Rauszer   <maurauser@...> 2003.05.29. 14:47:22 +2h-kor írta:


Here (though a bit late) comes my ones for Meyadhew and Longwer:

> 1. morphological type > a. agglutinative > b. fusional/inflecting > c. polysynthetic > d. isolating
LW: a; Meyadhew is also a) but with a slight touch of polysynthetism.
> 2. Word order > a. SOV > b. SVO > c. VSO > d. VOS > e. OVS > f. OSV > g. free
Well both are free VSO.
> 3. adposition/noun order > a. noun - preposition > b. preposition - noun
LW both has pre- and postpostions. Meyadhew does not have any but only prefixes.
> 4. adjective/noun order > a. adj - noun > b. noun - adj
Both are strictly b.
> 5. genitive/noun order > a. genitive - noun > b. noun - genitive
Noun-genitive.
> 6. relative clause/noun order > a. rel. clause - noun > b. noun - rel. clause
Both: b
> 7. main verb/aux verb order > a. main verb - aux verb > b. aux verb - main verb
It is free. in LW, Meyadhew does not have auxiliary verbs.
> 8. adverb/verb order > a. adv - verb > b. verb - adv
LW: b M: a
> 9. compounding type > a. head-last compounding > b. head-first compounding
Both are a)
> 10. case type > a. nominative/accusative > b. ergative/absolutive > c. split ergative > d. other
LW is a) while Meyadhew is ebisedic.
> 11. tense system > a. time (past/present/future) > b. aspect > c. realis/irrealis
LW has all the three distinctions. Meyadhew: what are verbs? :)
> 12. script > a. latin > b. other existing natlang script > c. con-script
Both have several different con-scripts.
> and some free answer questions: > > 13. number of genders/noun classes > 14. number of cases > 15. number of phonemes > 16. lexicon size
13: LW: two natural gender classes but the distinction tends to disappear. M: 10 classes. 14: LW has 8 basic and around ten additional secondary cases. Meyadhew has 4 cases and a lot of prefixes which function like prepostions. 15: LW: 20 consonants, 5+2 allophonic vowels (That is 27 total) M: 50 consonants (though 4 of them only appears in borrowings) and 6 vowels. 16: hard to say, Meydhew is quite newborn and I am just planning a big revision of my Long Wer vocabulary... LW has aroud 1800-2000 words, M has no more than 2-300 yet. -- Mau Rauser