Category: Create/Make/List

Goal: Create a noun negation strategy Note: Create any lexical sources you need to support your work and give examples of NPs. Tip: You may opt to rely on verbal negation to achieve this! Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create a strategy for negating noun phrases in your language. You may need to…

Goal: Expand your example NPs Note: Use the NPs you created and add more modifiers and/or layers of inflection. Tip: If modifiers agree, remember to inflect all modifiers. Work focus: Create/Make/List Using the structures you planned out yesterday, expand the list of NPs you created a couple days ago. Specifically, expand them to include multiple…

Goal: List examples of noun & adjective pairs Note: These pairs will demonstrate how attributive modifiers are placed in your language. Tip: These adjectives may inflect to agree with their head noun. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create a list of example noun phrases demonstrating attributive adjective placement relative to the head noun…

Goal: Create adjective forms in your language Note: These may be basic, derived, or adjective-like verbs/nouns. Tip: Create words to describe common features in the conworld. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to have some fun creating new adjectives (or adjective-like forms) in your language! Whether you create basic roots, derived/compounded forms, nominal modifiers, or…

Goal: Write more sample sentences Note: Use/test out a variety of features in your language as you write the sentences. Tip: Have some fun exploring features and expressing diverse ideas! Work focus: Create/Make/List Spend today composing more sentences in your language, having some fun exploring a variety of features and expressing different ideas. Writing sentences…

Goal: Create example derivations Note: Derivations don’t necessarily change the lexical category of the root word. Tip: Remember that zero-derivation is an option, too! Work focus: Create/Make/List Create a handful of derivational forms for your language (or create more compounds if your language lacks derivations). Some common derivational affixes change the lexical category of the…

Goal: Create example compound words Note: Create a variety of forms (e.g. N-N, V-V, V-N, N-V combinations). Tip: In highly analytic languages, compounds may not merge. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s focus is creating a variety of compound words in your language. Aim to create a variety of forms, demonstrating what your language allows, such as…

Goal: Create at least one valency-increasing strategy Note: This may involve creating a clause structure and/or creating new forms. Tip: Use examples to find and work out any problem areas. Work focus: Create/Make/List Whether you decided to create a morphological causative (e.g. a derivational affix) or a purely syntactic one (e.g. a particular construction provides…

Goal: Create examples of passive (or similar) structures Note: Show a variety of combinations with other inflections. Tip: Include both transitive and ditransitive verb examples. Work focus: Create/Make/List Use today to create several example sentences to showcase your passive (or antipassive) strategy. It’s helpful to show these examples in active ~ passive pairs to show…

Goal: Create a negation strategy Note: You may need to create lexical sources and/or multiple strategies. Tip: Negate the sentences you recently created! Work focus: Create/Make/List Build on what you did yesterday, and actually create your negation strategies, whether that means creating new forms, grammaticalizing existing words, or creating a new column in a chart…