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Re: Conlang Typology Survey

From:Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 7:02
I might as well do this in my own conlang :~) So here are the answers for
Minyeva:

> 1. morphological type > d. isolating
> 2. Word order > b. SVO > c. VSO
this isn't really a simple one - certain verbs pattern SVO, others pattern VSO.
> 3. adposition/noun order > b. preposition - noun
> 4. adjective/noun order > b. noun - adj
> 5. genitive/noun order > b. noun - genitive
> 6. relative clause/noun order > b. noun - rel. clause
> 7. main verb/aux verb order > b. aux verb - main verb
> 8. adverb/verb order > b. verb - adv
> 9. compounding type > b. head-first compounding
notice all of the preceding answers are b's, which are traditionally all considered head-first orders.
> 10. case type > a. nominative/accusative
> 11. tense system > b. aspect
> 12. script > a. latin
> and some free answer questions: > > 13. number of genders/noun classes
none
> 14. number of cases
no morphological cases, but there are adpositioned ones: there are basically two objects - one corresponds more or less to patients, the other to themes or other non-patient semantic roles.
> 15. number of phonemes
a mere 21 - auxlang style.
> 16. lexicon size
400-500 and steadily growing
> that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your conlangs > look?
-- Garrett Jones http://www.alkaline.org