Re: Conlang Typology Survey

This is for Oreelynna (which has undergone recent
grammatical and morphological changes:

--- Garrett Jones <conlang@...> wrote:

> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
Mostly inflecting, with some agglutinating
characteristics. (What is fusional?)

> 2. Word order
> c. VSO
VSO mainly, some freedom is possible, since the lang
is highly inflected. (5 noun cases, with an idea to
add a few more)
>
> 3. adposition/noun order
> b. preposition - noun
>
> 4. adjective/noun order
> b. noun - adj
At the moment, adjectives do not inflect like the
nouns, so they must appear immediately after the noun.
This may change, however. :)

> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
Not quite sure I understand. Genetive is a case ending
for nouns and pronouns in Oreelynna. So I guess it
would be "b" <rolls eyes at self> duh </reas>

> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
Grammar has not developed to that point yet, although
some preliminary sketches favored b.

> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> b. aux verb - main verb
German-like: aux-verb -- clause -- main-verb.

> 8. adverb/verb order
> b. verb - adv
Parallels the noun - adj. construction.

> 9. compounding type
> b. head-first compounding
Insofar as I have done any.
> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> 12. script
> a. latin
Latin with the Icelandic eth and thorn.
>
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
Noun classes: human male/female; non-human living;
inanimate; abstract

> 14. number of cases
5 currently, possibly 11 eventually. Current:
Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genetive, Equative
The potential 6 additional would be locative cases as
in Finno-Urgic languages.

> 15. number of phonemes
6 vowels: [a]; [e]; [i]; [I]; [o]; [u]
3 of those can be long: {a:]; [e:]; [o:]
2 possible diphthongs: [ai]; [ei]
17 consonants: [b]; [d]; [f]; [g]; [k]; [x]; [l]; [m];
[n]; [p]; [4]; [s]; [t]; [T]; [D]; [v]; [z]

> 16. lexicon size
Hard to say. Only abou 220 actually defined words, but
as derivation is easily possible... (been working
mostly on grammar)

> that's all the ones i could come up with quickly.
> so, how do your conlangs
> look?
Forthcoming



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James Worlton
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Fruit flies like a banana.
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