Typological Survey Part II

---- PART II Conlang Typlogic Survey 2001
----House-keeping data


>Name of the participating conlang:(same as on part I
>please :) )

draqa


>2: Order of genitive (G), and noun (N)
>That is: Possessor/owner and possession/owned thing
>If there aren't a way to show this in the language,
>please say so.  If there is a way...Is the order GN,
>NG or both?
>3: Order of adjective (A) and noun (N)


Rather than Noun, we'll say Root, thus:


Root - Genitive/Adjective


(Native POV: Predicate - Argument)


skae - run, running
pila - green, greenness
kowa - book
hana - person (human)

skae.hana - running (of) person = a person runs
hana.skae - person (of) running = a running person
kowa.hana - book (of) person = a person's book
hana.kowa - person (of) book = a book's (human) owner
pila.kowa - green (of) book = a book is green
kowa.pila - book (of) green = a green book


or, more commonly:

skae.c'hana = skae.hana

et cetera...

>How is it shown?

Both as follows:

1. - Through simple juxtaposition? (no extra marking
anywhere):

As in the examples above.

2. - With a freestanding word separating the G and the
N?  (like English 'of'):

kowa.mos.pila - book (composed of) grass = grass book

kowa.jáha.hana - book (beneficiary) person = book for
a person

kowa.dí.hana - book (benefactor) person = book from a
person

hana.hu.skae - person (filled with, attributed with)
running = a person that is running

hana.mek.skae - person (aspectual/ portional/
recognized association) running = "running part of a
person" -or more likely- "(that) person who's (always)
running"

kowa.o.hana - book (correlative, identical) person =
"(that) book that correlates with a person" -or- "book
which is also a person" -or- (in the case of a book)
"book about a person"


et cetera, et cetera...




where the format is always (native POV)

Predicate - ((Relator)) - (Argument)








>Does the language have a closed class of adjectives?-

No.


>If there is not a separate open adjective-class, what
>type of words do the work of adjectives, verbs or
>nouns?

Roots.  There are only two word classes in draqa:
Roots and Particles.



>Regardless of being a separate class or not:
>How are they similar, how do they differ from verbs
>and nouns?

Most fall into the class of Roots, as would most
"verbs" and "nouns".  Thus, no distinction.

>Can they take a copula (that is: need/don't need
> equivalent of "to be")?
No copula.

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