Re: conlang servey

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:16:11 -0700 Heather Rice <florarroz@...>
writes:
> Language name, creator's name, realative date of
> creation (just any old number will do), country and
> first language of creator, purpose of conlang
> (auxlang, conlang, loglang, . . . ).
Kontoko, Robert Wilson, 2002, USA - English, artlang

Kinsi Rorotan, Robert Wilson, 2002, USA - English, artlang

> Phonetics:  number of consonants, number of vowels,
> presence of nasalization, tone and how many, where the
> accent generally falls.
Kontoko - 6, 6, no, no, too complicated to describe in less than about 20
pages

Kinsi Rorotan - 14, 6, no, no, penultimate (usually)

> Morphemes:  presence of allomorphs, mutation,
> assimilation, prefixes, suffixes, infixes,
> suprafixation, dicontinuation, exclusion, total
> fusion, subtraction, reduplication.  Is the conlang
> agglutinating, isolating or fusional?
can someone tell me what suprafixation, dicontinuation, exclusion, total
fusion, and subtraction mean?

Kontoko - lots of allomorphs, assimilation and dissimilation, lots of
prefixes, lots of suffixes, lots of infixes, extremely agglutinating

Kinsi Rorotan - allomorphs, prefixes, suffixes, agglutinating (i think)

> Nouns and such:  subclasses of nouns (common/proper,
> abstract, things that may not be expressed explicitly
> in affixes), presence of cases and how many and what
> kind, kind of possession (alienable, inalienable, no
> distinction, etc.) presence of gender, number,
> articles, demostratives, adjectives, quantatives.  Are
> comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?
> Do pronouns express gender, number, declension?  Are
> there indefinite pronouns, possessed pronouns?
> Others?  Are prepositions bound, unbound?  How many
> prepositons (approximate).  Presence of clitics.  Is
> derivational morphology mostly by compounding words or
> by affix or both?
Kontoko - lots of subclasses (around 50, should i list them?), anywhere
from 2 to 30 cases depending on the word, i'm not sure what alienable and
inalienable mean..., 10 genders, 6 numbers, definite article, lots of
demonstratives, adjectives, i'm not sure what quantatives are...,
comparatives are expressed by affixes, pronouns express gender, number
and declention, indefinite pronouns, posessive pronouns, lots of others,
i'm not sure what bound and unbound mean..., about 250 adpositions - can
be prefixed, infixed, or postfixed, derivational morphology - both

Kinsi Rorotan - no subclasses of nouns, 7 cases, ..., 3 genders, 3
numbers, no articles, demonstratives, adjectives, ..., comparatives
expressed by both, pronouns express gender, number, and declension,
indefinite pronouns, posessive pronouns, ..., unknown number of
prepositions, a few clitics, derivational morphology - both

> Verbs and such:
> Are person, number, object expressed with the verb?
Kontoko - sometimes...

Kinsi Rorotan - no

> Are there static verbs (to be)?
Kontoko - no

Kinsi Rorotan - no

  Is the object
> incorporated into the person marker (making a
> phonetically different affix like in the Native
> American languages)?
Kontoko - sometimes

Kinsi Rorotan - no

  Is transitivity marked for
> transitive, intransitive, bitransitive or other?
Kontoko - sometimes

Kinsi Rorotan - no

  Is
> the person inclusive, exclusive, no distiction?
Kontoko - no distinction

Kinsi Rorotan - no distinction

  Kind
> of gender.  Are past, present, future expressed?
Kontoko - yes

Kinsi Rorotan - yes

> Recent, remote?
Kontoko - sometimes

Kinsi Rorotan - no

  Is mode express, what kind?

Kontoko - yes, lots

Kinsi Rorotan - yes, must, want to, able to, should

  Is voice
> expressed?
Kontoko - sometimes

Kinsi Rorotan - sometimes

  What kind?  Manner?  Aspect?  Please list
> what kinds of manner and aspect the conlang expresses
> in its verbs.
Kontoko - too many to list...

Kinsi Rorotan - continuative, perfective

  Presence of adverbs,

Kontoko - yes

Kinsi Rorotan - yes

 pro-drop.

don't know...

  Can
> nouns, adjectives, adverbs be changed to verbs and
> vice versa?
Kontoko - yes

Kinsi Rorotan - yes

> Presence of adjective, adverbial clauses and relative
> pronouns.
Kontoko - yes

Kinsi Rorotan - yes

> Sentences:
> Does the conlang have an ergative or accusative
> system?
Kontoko - kind of both...

Kinsi Rorotan - ergative

  Word order and is it free or strict?

Kontoko - depends on a lot of things, sometimes it's free, sometimes it's
strict

Kinsi Rorotan - SOV or OVS, except pronouns come after the verb, not
extremely strict, but not very free either

  Are
> adjectives, adverbs and prepositions before or after
> the modified word?
Kontoko - either

Kinsi Rorotan - adjectives, adverbs, and postpositions follow,
prepositions precede

  Is the word order changed in a
> question?
Kontoko - depends on the question

Kinsi Rorotan - not changed

How many (approximately) conjugations are
> there?
Kontoko - about 1 for every verb

Kinsi Rorotan - 1 (total)

> Other:
> What is the number base for the numeral system (10?
> 12?)?
Kontoko - 8, 10, 12, 16

Kinsi Rorotan - 8

  Presence of idioms, irregular forms of nouns
> and verbs.
Kontoko - lots of idioms, lots of irregular forms

Kinsi Rorotan - quite a few idioms, no irregular forms

  Is the language syntax very predictable,
> or are there many exceptions?
Kontoko - not predictable at all

Kinsi Rorotan - very predictable, a few exceptions

  How much literature has
> been produced and what kind (I'm not talking about
> translations, but stuff you wrote yourself).
Kontoko - 1/2 of a song, 1/8 of a conhistory

Kinsi Rorotan - 1 song

Is there
> a history and dictionary of the conlang?
Kontoko - history

Kinsi Rorotan - history, dictionary

  Script
> invented?
Kontoko - yes

Kinsi Rorotan - yes

  Other conlangs produced by the creator of
> this one.
Latuko, Gweðes, Kamele, Kono, Funarja, B@nErau, Asvel

> If you could summarize your conlang in a sentence,
> what would you write?
Kontoko - Every word is irregular.

I can't summarize Kinsi Rorotan in a sentence. Anyone have any ideas?

> On my servey, I knew I couldn't possibly cover
> everything that conlangs will be, so I included a long
> notes section.  If you want to provide any other
> information about the conlang, just keep typing!
Kontoko - a priori

Kinsi Rorotan - a priori

Latuko - Romlang w/ Kontoko substratum

Gweðes - a posteriori

Kamele - a priori

B@nErau - a posteriori

Kono - a posteriori

Funarja - a posteriori

> Heather
Robert Wilson (aka Elentirno Perellar aka Kuvazokad)
http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
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