Category: Create/Make/List

Goal: Create conditional and evidential forms Note: If you don’t mark conditionality or evidentiality, focus on creating examples. Tip: Your examples should show how your language handles these pragmatic details. Work focus: Create/Make/List Create conditional and evidential forms for your language, as needed. If you don’t mark either conditionality or evidentiality (e.g. through an inflection…

Goal: Create examples of modifying infinitive phrases Note: If these are not distinct structures from participle phrases, then create more words! Tip: You may opt to restrict the head nouns that can be modified by these. Work focus: Create/Make/List Finally, if your conlang differentiates infinitive modifiers from other nonfinite verb-based modifiers, then create examples of…

Goal: Create examples of modifying participle phrases Note: If your language distinguishes them, include examples of both active and passive participles. Tip: Show how these phrases work modifying a variety of head nouns. Work focus: Create/Make/List Create examples of participle phrases modifying a head noun—if your conlang has both active and passive participle forms, then…

Goal: Create examples of modifying adposition phrases Note: If your language is mixed-headed, you may need examples of both pre- and postpositions. Tip: Incorporate these modifiers in a variety of clausal positions. Work focus: Create/Make/List Now that you have developed strategies for phrasal modifiers of head nouns, the next few days will give you time…

Goal: Create examples of relative clauses Note: Create full clauses with relative clauses embedded as modifiers. Tip: Make sure the clauses modify nouns occurring in different clausal positions. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to put all the relative clause work you’ve done into action! Create examples of matrix clauses with relative clauses, being sure…

Goal: Create forms you need OR more words in general Note: Create what you need to support your relative clause strategy. Tip: If you already have what you need, have some fun making new words! Work focus: Create/Make/List Over the past couple days, you identified and listed what forms you need to actually create your…

Goal: Create “why” and “how” forms with examples Note: As you create the wh-words, showcase them in a variety of example questions. Tip: You may have more than one form that translates as a single English wh-word. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create the wh-words you’ll need to target manner and reason information…

Goal: Create “where” and “when” forms with examples Note: Create the wh-words you’ll need to target temporal and spatial information. Tip: Keep track of the lexical sources to make sure you remember where they come from! Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create words that roughly translate as “where” and “when” in your language—the…

Goal: Create wh-word nominal forms and examples Note: You may also be creating an interrogative particle, if that’s a part of your strategy. Tip: These include “who, what, which, whose” and any others needed for your inflectional system. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create wh-word forms for your conlang that will allow you…

Goal: Create strategies for answering y/n questions Note: Create ways to say “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” (feel free to create more!). Tip: These may be reduced forms based on a phrase like “it is true” or “so it goes” in your language. Work focus: Create/Make/List Now that you have y/n question forms, today’s goal is…