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