Re: Conlang Typology Survey

On Tue, 20 May 2003 08:43:11 -0700, Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
wrote:

>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
Lindiga is more agglutinative than anything else, but a bit obscured by
phonological alternations. Tirelat is a little more fusional, with its
fused evidential/tense suffixes, but still mainly agglutinative. Ludireo is
isolating.

>2. Word order
>a. SOV
>b. SVO
>c. VSO
>d. VOS
>e. OVS
>f. OSV
>g. free
Lindiga: VOS/VSO, Tirelat: SVO (less frequently OSV), Ludireo: SVO.

>3. adposition/noun order
>a. noun - preposition
>b. preposition - noun
Most of my recent langs have had prepositions before nouns.

>4. adjective/noun order
>a. adj - noun
>b. noun - adj
Lindiga: noun - adj. Tirelat, Ludireo: adj - noun.

>5. genitive/noun order
>a. genitive - noun
>b. noun - genitive
Lindiga, Tirelat: b. Ludireo: a.

>6. relative clause/noun order
>a. rel. clause - noun
>b. noun - rel. clause
Lindiga, Tirelat: b. Ludireo: a.

>7. main verb/aux verb order
>a. main verb - aux verb
>b. aux verb - main verb
Lindiga, Ludireo: b. Tirelat uses suffixes in place of auxiliary verbs.

>8. adverb/verb order
>a. adv - verb
>b. verb - adv
Lindiga: b. Tirelat, Ludireo: a.

>9. compounding type
>a. head-last compounding
>b. head-first compounding
Lindiga: b. Tirelat, Ludireo: a.

>10. case type
>a. nominative/accusative
>b. ergative/absolutive
>c. split ergative
>d. other
Lindiga: b. Tirelat, Ludireo: a.

>11. tense system
>a. time (past/present/future)
>b. aspect
>c. realis/irrealis
Lindiga: b. Tirelat: a-b-c. Ludireo: a-b.

>12. script
>a. latin
>b. other existing natlang script
>c. con-script
Lindiga, Ludireo: a. Tirelat: c.

>and some free answer questions:
>
>13. number of genders/noun classes
Lindiga: none
Tirelat: six genders
Ludireo: undetermined number of classifiers

>14. number of cases
Lindiga: around 6-8 (not yet fixed)
Tirelat: 6

>15. number of phonemes
Lindiga: 28 consonants, 8 vowels (plus length), 3 diphthongs
Tirelat: 23 consonants, 6 vowels (plus length)
Ludireo: 23 consonants, 10 vowels

>16. lexicon size
Lindiga: around 400 (still a fairly new language)
Tirelat: around 2,500, but many of these are randomly assigned words that
I'm eventually going to throw out and redo because I'm not satisfied with
them. Maybe around 1,000 good words left over.
Ludireo: Too disorganized to count. Probably a few hundred.

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