Re: Communal/collaborative languages now possible at CALS

* Jim Henry said on 2008-08-20 00:01:25 +0200
> I'm done entering featural data for Esperanto
> and am working on Toki Pona.
>
> The "Polar Questions" feature from WALS doesn't
> seem to have any option that fits Toki Pona:
>
> http://wals.info/feature/description/116
>
> TP marks yes/no questions by juxtaposing a normal
> verb and the same verb negatived, e.g.
Mandarin in WALS:

http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_mnd

> sina toki.
> You're talking.
>
> sina toki ala toki?
> Are you talking?
> you talk not talk?
Mandarin is set as "question particle", though without examples
in the chapter text.

> Also, it seems as though "Prefixing vs. Suffixing in
> Inflectional Morphology"  should have an option for "No
> affixation".
>
> And various questions re: relative clauses should have an
> option for "No relative clauses".
>
> For now I've left all those blank for Toki Pona.
That's the correct solution anyway. You're not supposed to
answer all of them. If a lang isn't a sign language you
shouldn't try to still answer the "sign language" only
questions, after all.


t.

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