Re: conlang survey
| From: | Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 6:22 |
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:27:01 -0800, Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> wrote:
>I'm interested in this conlang survey that went around recently. What I'm
>wondering is what sorts of questions ought to be asked, specifically those
>that are multiple-choice type questions.
I suppose you're looking for things that were not in the conlang survey that
was posted recently? I think the following things might be interesting to
know; they are less about the grammatical structure and more about the usage
and design of language.
Ways of marking important information: topic marker? Trigger language?
Topic-first? Topic-last? Idiomatic constructions (It is the _dog_ that bla
bla bla..)?
In languages that have sample passages, is there a preference for many small
sentences or large sentences with lots of information in each?
How is politeness/rudeness expressed: choice among synonymous words?
Inflection/conjugation? Word order change? Extra phrases?
Conlanging paradigm (may be more than one). Was the language made to be:
Pidgin/creole? Alien? Bizarre? A priori or a posteriori? Speedtalk? Easily
learnable? Unnaturally beautiful?
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