Re: Vocab lists

>Hi,
>In the past people have posted urls to various lists of basic vocbulary. Those
>have been fairly useful. What I could really use, however, is a corpus of
>sentences comprised of that basic vocabulary (and only that basic
>vocabulary). The vocab exercises have been somewhatly useful in this respect.
>However, I'm thinking of something closer to the kinds of sentences that
>appear in linguistics books. Good example sentences. Lots of 'em.
>Thanks,
>-Sylvia
I've often longed for a similar thing.  It would be nice to have a
collection of sentences which exemplify particular bits of grammar, like "I
thought this thread was dead" for complement clauses and "the cow jumped
over the moon" for 'relational expressivity' that are going around now, and
all the better if the vocabulary is simple.  I'd be particularly interested
in sentences that any of you found difficult to translate into your conlang
for whatever reason (other than the vocab), or that illustrate interesting
features of your conlangs (to give an example, I translated "between a cat
and a hare" as
der     rakau   ka   weneu
between cat.LOC from hare.LOC
I didn't use <an> "and" because it tends only to be used where it could
'distribute': <der rakau an weneu> would be like <der rakau an der weneu>,
as if whatever the clause was modifying was between each of them separately.)

Anyway, if nobody knows about an existing website which has a collection of
these, I'd be eager to create one.  So do any of you have any such sentences?

Alex

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