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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 4:05
>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:
This is for my language pjaukra.
>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
b
>2. Word order >a. SOV >b. SVO >c. VSO >d. VOS >e. OVS >f. OSV >g. free
a and b (at least those are the unmarked orders; I suppose word order could be called free)
>3. adposition/noun order >a. noun - preposition >b. preposition - noun
b
>4. adjective/noun order >a. adj - noun >b. noun - adj
b
>5. genitive/noun order >a. genitive - noun >b. noun - genitive
b
>6. relative clause/noun order >a. rel. clause - noun >b. noun - rel. clause
b
>7. main verb/aux verb order >a. main verb - aux verb >b. aux verb - main verb
mostly b, occasionally a
>8. adverb/verb order >a. adv - verb >b. verb - adv
a
>9. compounding type >a. head-last compounding >b. head-first compounding
a
>10. case type >a. nominative/accusative >b. ergative/absolutive >c. split ergative >d. other
a
>11. tense system >a. time (past/present/future) >b. aspect >c. realis/irrealis
a, b
>12. script >a. latin >b. other existing natlang script >c. con-script
c (there's a Romanized orthography, of course, but the speakers, not having any contact with our world, can't know of it)
>and some free answer questions: > >13. number of genders/noun classes
4 declensions (not really classes: nothing agrees with them)
>14. number of cases
4
>15. number of phonemes
30 consonants, 4 vowels
>16. lexicon size
slowly approaching nine gross Alex