Quoting Garrett Jones <conlang@...>:
> 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.
This is for Yargish (Y), Kalini Sapak (KS) and Steienzh (S):
> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
> c. polysynthetic
> d. isolating
Y: a
KS: b or a - I don't really know how to classify it. Think Semitic.
S: a with traces of b.
> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
Y: a, with rearrangement for emphasis possible.
KS: b, with rearrangement for emphasis possible.
S: b, with rearrangement for emphasis possible.
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
Y: a
KS: b
S: b
(Someone-else may've pointed this one out, but it should be "noun-
postposition".)
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
Y: a
KS: a
S: a, occasionally b in frozen expressions or archaizing usage.
> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
Y: b
KS: a (the very name "Kalini Sapak" is an example of this - "clans' speech".)
S: a
> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
Y: b
KS: Probably b. Haven't really figured out how this works yet.
S: b. There is a tendency to replace relative clauses by prenominal
participial constructions.
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
Y: No auxiliaries
KS: No auxiliaries
S: No auxiliaries
Are languages supposed to have these?
> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
Y: a
KS: a
S: a and b
> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
Y: a
KS: a
S: a, but productive compounding, largely, isn't.
> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> b. ergative/absolutive
> c. split ergative
> d. other
Y: b
KS: a
S: a
> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
Y: a and b
KS: a
S: a
> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
Y: c
KS: c
S: c
(The Yargish and Kalini Sapak con-scripts, this far, has a largely theoretical
existence, altho' I've deviced a couple of Yargish logographs. Steienzh is
written in the _Moidzhen Xalesh_ ['mOYdZn= 'xal@S], on this list perhaps
better known under their Tairezan name _Maidzhen Klaish_. More info can be
found at andjo.free.fr .)
> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
Y: 1
KS: 3
S: 1
> 14. number of cases
Y: 4 (one of which, the locative, only occurs with postpositions)
KS: 3
S: 5
> 15. number of phonemes
Y: 22
KS: 23
S: 42. Or 32. It's hard to tell, really. Could be somewhere in between. Or
possibly 47.
> 16. lexicon size
Y: ~50
KS: 30 entries in the list of roots. Most roots give rise to multiple words.
S: I don't know. 200 may be a decent guestimate.
Andreas