Re: Conlang Typology Survey (last call)

        Enamyn:
> 1. morphological type
b. fusional/inflecting, with some agglutination.

> 2. Word order
g. free, although there are some tendencies toward SOV

> 3. adposition/noun order
b. preposition - noun, with a class of postpositions, mostly time-related.

> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
        Does "free" count here? I guess there's a tendency toward noun-adj, but it's
more a matter of style.

> 5. genitive/noun order
a. genitive - noun, but noun - genetive is common, although in which case the
genetive takes on a adjectival form.

> 6. relative clause/noun order
        Two options; it can either be internally headed (roughly, "The sleeping
princess that he kissed" would be "He [the princess *rel* slept] kissed.") or
a rel. clause - noun, but it can only be used in cases where a participle
form of the verb can be used: "He kissed the sleep_ing_ princess" (This isn't
a clause in English, but it is in Enamyn.)

> 7. main verb/aux verb order
a. main verb - aux verb, but in keeping with Enamyn's free word order,
aux-main is also possible, albeit somewhat marked.

> 8. adverb/verb order
Free.

> 9. compounding type
b. head-first compounding

> 10. case type
d. other - active (heavily on the fluid-S side of the spectrum)

> 11. tense system
a. time (past/present/future)
b. aspect
c. realis/irrealis
        All three. Nouns show tense which is either absolute (past, present, future)
or relative (past of the absolute, present of the absolute, future of the
absolute). Furthermore, both the absolute and relative forms have irrealis
forms. And the verbs have aspect declension.

> 12. script
> c. con-script, two of 'em, in fact, although the oldest was only used for
monuments and Bible translations.

> 13. number of genders/noun classes
        2. Animate and inanimate.

> 14. number of cases
        9. Agentive, patientive, locative, directional, recipiential, experiential,
instrumental, possessive, genitive/oblique.

> 15. number of phonemes
        24: 19 consonants (/p b t d k m n f v T s S x ts tS l K r j/) and 5 vowels
(/i E a O u/)

> 16. lexicon size
        Several hundred, haven't counted recently.

        :Peter

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