Category: Organize/Plan/Structure

Goal: Create a template for relative clauses Note: List any forms you might need to create to support your relative clause strategy. Tip: Pull your focus onto internal structures of the clause, mapping out your needs. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Focus today on the internal structures of your relative clauses, creating a template for the basic…

Goal: Plan a general strategy for relative clauses Note: Focus on the basics, including where relative clauses occur in matrix clauses. Tip: Create examples to include modification of nouns in multiple clausal positions. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Today’s goal is to plan a strategy for relative clauses, focusing first on the “big picture” elements, like where…

Goal: Make a plan for wh-questions targeting adverb info Note: Focus more generally on issues like word order and wh-word placement. Tip: These target information like where, when, why, and how. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Turn your attention today to wh-questions that target adverbial information, such as time, manner, place, and reason. In other words, questions…

Goal: Review verb forms in light of y/n question strategies Note: Identify if/how any inflectional markings are affected by question forms. Tip: Use a single question as a base form and run it through a variety of inflectional options. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Review any information you’ve written on verb forms (e.g. inflection charts, documentation) to…

Goal: Lay out a strategy for creating y/n questions Note: You may need different strategies for different verb types. Tip: Languages may have different structures and expectations for positive v. negative forms. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Select a strategy for creating y/n questions. You may need to consider having multiple strategies if you have different syntactic…

Goal: Update verb inflection charts Note: Add entries to the charts to show how imperative verbs are inflected. Tip: You may need to update verb head entries in your dictionary to reflect the imperative. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Review your verb inflection charts and add new entries for the imperative forms and their inflections (remember that…

Goal: Draft a plan for imperative clauses Note: Also list forms you need to create or pull together for your chosen strategy. Tip: You might consider using the bare/citation form of the verb with no explicit subject. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have had some fun exploring imperatives, select a strategy or set of…

Goal: Consider how coordination interact with inflections Note: Conjunctions like “and” & “or” may affect subject verb agreement. Tip: Inclusive and exclusive “or” may follow different patterns. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have some coordinated noun phrases worked out, spend today considering how those noun phrases might interact with any inflections in your language…

Goal: Plan what you need for your coordination strategy Note: You may need to create new lexical forms and/or make templates. Tip: Focus only on phrasal coordination for now. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Take some time to select which phrasal coordination strategy (or strategies) you are going to incorporate into your language. For now, only focus…

Goal: Consider how names will interact with inflections Note: Names can inflect but don’t have to—that decision is up to you! Tip: You may consider a vocative form for addressing a specific person. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have some names (both personal and place names) in your language, your next decision is how…