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From: "Garrett Jones" <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Conlang Typology Survey
> 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
>
> 2. Word order
> g. free, but Omeina is an auxiliary-verb language, and the auxiliaries are
incorporating. Usual position in declarative sentences is phrase-terminal.
>
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
>
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. Free, but tends to adj - noun
>
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. As 4.
>
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> b. noun - rel. clause
>
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb (Aux verbs are the only verbs as such)
>
> 8. adverb/verb order
> Free
>
> 9. compounding type
> a. Free, but tends to head-last compounding
> 10. case type
> c. split ergative
>
> 11. tense system
> b. aspect
>
> 12. script
> a. latin
> c. con-script
>
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
None
> 14. number of cases
Twelve (two falling into disuse)
> 15. number of phonemes
20
> 16. lexicon size
> Several hundred
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