Category: Create/Make/List

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…

Goal: Create more example sentences Note: Make sure you are happy with how forms occur in clause structures. Tip: These should be basic declarative active positive clauses. Work focus: Create/Make/List Take your verbs out for a spin! Have some fun creating more clause structures in your language—these will be handy additions to your language’s grammar…

Goal: Create examples to show non-finite verb forms Note: It’s okay if you haven’t decided how to use them in clauses yet. Tip: Recall these are the infinitive and active participle forms. Work focus: Create/Make/List Give examples to show your plan for the infinitive and active participle verb forms in your language. These may end…

Goal: Create any forms you need for marking tense/aspect Note: These may be particles or auxiliaries rather than affixes. Tip: You can create adverbs if you don’t want to mark T/A. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create any forms you need to mark the tense/aspect distinctions you chose to include in your language.…

Goal: Create any index markers you want for your verbs Note: Provide examples—even if the examples just show the lack of index marking. Tip: If you don’t need any index markers, create more verbs! Work focus: Create/Make/List It’s time to start putting your inflectional plans into motion! Today’s focus is on creating any index markers…

Goal: Create verbs to work with in the coming days Note: If you have verb classes, make sure you have at least a few verbs per class. Tip: Verb type can affect case-marking on arguments. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create more verbs—specifically verbs that will be helpful so you can test forms…

Goal: Create “absence” indefinite forms Note: These include forms like no, none, no one, nothing, nobody. Tip: Consider whether a singular or plural noun should occur with the modifier form. Work focus: Create/Make/List Finally, turn your focus to the indefinite forms that indicate an absence of an entity. Unlike the other forms discussed so far,…

Goal: Create plural indefinite forms Note: Consider how your conlang may distinguish all versus some or many. Tip: You can create more later on—these are just to get started. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create more indefinite pronoun (and modifier) forms that indicate more one of a given entity, such as some, few,…

Goal: Create singular indefinite forms Note: Create both pronoun and modifying forms (they may be identical). Tip: Even if your language lacks number, it can have a singulative indefinite. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create indefinite modifiers/pronouns that indicate a single entity. For instance, English has forms like one and each to indicate…

Goal: Create demonstrative pronouns (if needed) Note: You may instead create a strategy to use modifiers. Tip: These may be identical to the modifier forms. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create any demonstrative pronoun forms that you need for your language. If the pronoun forms are identical to the demonstrative modifiers, be sure…