Conlang Typology Survey (last call)
| From: | Garrett Jones <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 15:33 |
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I'm planning on posting the comprehensive results of this survey on this
weekend. That means there is still a couple of days for everyone who hasn't
done this for their conlangs. Also, if any of you have only done it for a
couple of your conlangs, you can still do it for your other conlangs too. I
have copied the survey here for your convenience.
1. morphological type
a. agglutinative
b. fusional/inflecting
c. polysynthetic
d. isolating
2. Word order
a. SOV
b. SVO
c. VSO
d. VOS
e. OVS
f. OSV
g. free
3. adposition/noun order
a. noun - preposition
b. preposition - noun
4. adjective/noun order
a. adj - noun
b. noun - adj
5. genitive/noun order
a. genitive - noun
b. noun - genitive
6. relative clause/noun order
a. rel. clause - noun
b. noun - rel. clause
7. main verb/aux verb order
a. main verb - aux verb
b. aux verb - main verb
8. adverb/verb order
a. adv - verb
b. verb - adv
9. compounding type
a. head-last compounding
b. head-first compounding
10. case type
a. nominative/accusative
b. ergative/absolutive
c. split ergative
d. other
11. tense system
a. time (past/present/future)
b. aspect
c. realis/irrealis
12. script
a. latin
b. other existing natlang script
c. con-script
and some free answer questions:
13. number of genders/noun classes
14. number of cases
15. number of phonemes
16. lexicon size
--
Garrett Jones
http://www.alkaline.org
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