Category: Prompt
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Day 116: April 25, 2024
Goal: Brainstorm ideas for valency-increasing strategies Note: While passives decrease valency, causatives increase the valency of a verb. Tip: This may require creating a clausal construction. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s goal is to start generating ideas for how you might handle valency-increasing strategies, such as the causative. A causative adds an argument to a verb’s…
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Day 115: April 24, 2024
Goal: Formalize the passive strategy in your document Note: You may need to add the passive inflection to the head word forms of a verb. Tip: Structure your document so you can easily see examples. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Incorporate the example sentences you’ve created to showcase your language’s (anti)passive inflections (or other strategy) into your…
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Day 114: April 23, 2024
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…
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Day 113: April 22, 2024
Goal: Plan your strategy for (anti)passivization Note: Decide how to handle situations with an unknown or absent primary argument. Tip: Not all languages have a specific passive inflection. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Now that you have explored options for how the (anti)passive can be formed, today’s focus is on planning out your strategy. You don’t need…
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Day 112: April 21, 2024
Goal: Explore options for active/passive distinctions Note: Find a strategy that is appropriate for your syntactic alignment. Tip: The focus here is on a valency-reduction strategy. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Another type of inflection that can occur with verbs is passivization. This inflection is special, though, because it actually changes the valency of a transitive verb…
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Day 111: April 20, 2024
Goal: Create new words with their full dictionary entries Note: Make sure all lexical sources made it into the dictionary, too. Tip: Find a rhythm that works to create and document! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you’ve expanded your dictionary entries for verbs, spend the day creating some new verbs and entering their information into…
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Day 110: April 19, 2024
Goal: Comb through dictionary entries to check for accuracy Note: Continue updating any verb inflections you need to add. Tip: Write up a section on how entries are formatted. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure It’s another organization kind of day, with a continued goal of updating dictionary entries and checking to make sure all the entries are…
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Day 109: April 18, 2024
Goal: Review verb inflections to add in dictionary entries Note: Focus especially on any forms that are irregular or not fully predictable. Tip: It can be helpful even if the forms are rather predictable. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure You’ve written up information about verb inflections and entered verbs into the dictionary, but today’s focus is a…
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Day 108: April 17, 2024
Goal: Write a section describing verb negation Note: If you have more than one strategy, be sure to provide examples. Tip: Present examples in positive/negative pairs. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is on documenting the choices you made about verb negation. You may have decided to incorporate more than one strategy (e.g. some verbs use…
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Day 107: April 16, 2024
Goal: Write section on tense/aspect distinctions Note: Even if you don’t mark T/A, show examples with possible translations. Tip: Explain your system so Future You will be able to use the features. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today continues work on language documentation, focusing on describing how your language handles tense/aspect distinctions. Even if your language lacks…