| From: | Garrett Jones <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 15:43 |
I'm curious about the distribution of the types of conlangs on this list. So, a survey. Maybe it will generate some on-topic discussions. Answer it for your respective conlangs: multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes sense for your conlang. 1. morphological type a. agglutinative b. fusional/inflecting c. polysynthetic d. isolating 2. Word order a. SOV b. SVO c. VSO d. VOS e. OVS f. OSV g. free 3. adposition/noun order a. noun - preposition b. preposition - noun 4. adjective/noun order a. adj - noun b. noun - adj 5. genitive/noun order a. genitive - noun b. noun - genitive 6. relative clause/noun order a. rel. clause - noun b. noun - rel. clause 7. main verb/aux verb order a. main verb - aux verb b. aux verb - main verb 8. adverb/verb order a. adv - verb b. verb - adv 9. compounding type a. head-last compounding b. head-first compounding 10. case type a. nominative/accusative b. ergative/absolutive c. split ergative d. other 11. tense system a. time (past/present/future) b. aspect c. realis/irrealis 12. script a. latin b. other existing natlang script c. con-script and some free answer questions: 13. number of genders/noun classes 14. number of cases 15. number of phonemes 16. lexicon size that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your conlangs look? -- Garrett Jones http://www.alkaline.org