Re: conlang servey

On Friday 25 October 2002 4:16 am, you wrote:

> Language name,
Gevey

> creator's name,
Rik Roots

> realative date of creation (just any old number will do),
1976 onwards

> country and first language of creator,
UK, English

> purpose of conlang (auxlang, conlang, loglang, . . . ).
Artlang

> Phonetics:  number of consonants,
30

> number of vowels,
22

> presence of nasalization,
yes (limited)

> tone and how many,
yes, 3

> where the accent generally falls.
each syllable is equally stressed

> Is the conlang agglutinating, isolating or fusional?
agglutinating

> Nouns and such:  subclasses of nouns
> (common/proper, abstract, things that may not be expressed explicitly
> in affixes),
no subclasses

> presence of cases and how many and what
> kind, kind of possession (alienable, inalienable, no
> distinction, etc.)
Nominative, accusative, genetive, dative (systemic, spatial, motive,
temporal), reflexive (pronouns only)

> presence of gender,
Yes, when required

> number,
singular, paucal, plural

> articles,
no

> demostratives,
yes

> adjectives,
yes

> quantatives.
yes

> Are comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?
use adjective anchors, dependent on the comparison

> Do pronouns express gender,
yes, if required

> number,
yes

> declension?
yes

> Are there indefinite pronouns,
yes

> possessed pronouns?
yes

> How many prepositons (approximate).
23

> Is derivational morphology mostly by compounding words or
> by affix or both?
both

> Verbs and such:
> Are person, number, object expressed with the verb?
number and subject status

> Are there static verbs (to be)?
yes

> Are past, present, future expressed?
yes

> Recent, remote?
yes

> Is mode express, what kind?
obligation, necessity, inevitability, probability, acceptability, each with a
high, reasonable and low liklihood

> Is voice expressed?  What kind?
active, incidental, stative

> Manner?  Aspect?  Please list
> what kinds of manner and aspect the conlang expresses
> in its verbs.
8 completion ( continuous, regularly repeated, single incomplete, irregular,
start, end, resumption, generic) and 5 emphatic (always, yes, perhaps, no,
never) aspects

> Presence of adverbs
yes

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

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

> Sentences:
> Does the conlang have an ergative or accusative
> system?
accusative

> Word order and is it free or strict?
free as in there is no set order of subject, object and verb - but word order
is determined by the needs of focus and emphasis within the sentence

> Are adjectives, adverbs and prepositions before or after
> the modified word?
adjectives always follow, and are attached to, nouns and pronouns
adverbs tend to follow their verb
prepositions go in front of their object or verb

> Is the word order changed in a question?
not without a good reason

> How many (approximately) conjugations are
> there?
you mean conjunctions?
6 groups of conjunctions - coordinating (at least 34), predicate (at least
7), dependent (at least 13), temporal (at least 7), switch (4, plus
compounds) and relative (3 entry and 3 hook).

> Other:
> What is the number base for the numeral system (10?
> 12?)?
base 8 and base 10 systems are used - base 10 is native

> Presence of idioms,
yes

> irregular forms of nouns and verbs.
a few

> Is the language syntax very predictable,
> or are there many exceptions?
mainly predictable, once the different forms of associated and dissociated
nouns, and the letter mutation system are learned

> How much literature has
> been produced and what kind (I'm not talking about
> translations, but stuff you wrote yourself).
Stories are being written, as is a teach-yourself manual, etc

> Is there a history and dictionary of the conlang?
yes

> Script invented?
yes

> Other conlangs produced by the creator of
> this one.
>
none of any significance

Rik, knee deep