Re: Typologic survey, part I

> >Name of the participating conlang:
Tokana


> >Name/id of the creators:
Matt Pearson


> >Place used, if any:
Spoken by a sedentary hunter-gatherer people, also called the Tokana, who live
in several dozen villages along the west coast of North America (specifically,
what we know as western Washington State).

The Tokana occupy an alternate historical timeline, which diverged from our
timeline about 14,000 years ago.  Hence, the Tokana earth is bio-geologically
identical to our earth, but differs from it in nearly all the details of human
history since the rise of civilisation.


> >Type of language as per Rick Harrison's system[2]:
> >(see http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/l-types.html)
2.1.2, I guess:  Strictly a priori structure and vocabulary, though with
conscious and unconscious inspiration from numerous natlangs.


> >Which order(s) is/are most common?
I've never done a count, but probably SVO.


> >Which orders are possible?
Tokana is best characterised as having basic VSO order, but with a preverbal
topic position to which the subject, object, or some other element is
obligatorily displaced.  Common orders are SV, SVO, OVS, and XVSO (X = some
constituent other than the subject or object).


> >Is the order different if the verb is intransitive, if so, how?
No.


Matt.