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Re: Conlang Typology Survey (last call)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, May 29, 2003, 18:22
Garrett Jones wrote:

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. >
OK, let's get GWR [gw3^] on record:
> 1. morphological type > d. isolating -- and monosyllabic > > 2. Word order > b. SVO > > 3. adposition/noun order > b. preposition - noun > > 4. adjective/noun order > a. adj - noun > > 5. genitive/noun order > a. genitive - noun > > 6. relative clause/noun order > b. noun - rel. clause (uncertain) > > 7. main verb/aux verb order > b. aux verb - main verb > > 8. adverb/verb order > a. adv - verb > b. verb - adv
probably free.........
> > 9. compounding type > a. head-last compounding > > 10. case type > a. nominative/accusative (??) > > 11. tense system (uncertain) > a. time (past/present/future) > b. aspect
optional; if present, all marked by particles
> > 12. script >> c. con-script > > and some free answer questions: > > 13. number of genders/noun classes--none > 14. number of cases-- none
optional plural marking
> 15. number of phonemes
at least 23 C; 9 vowels; 5 tones
> 16. lexicon size-- about 200