Category: Prompt
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Day 86: March 26, 2024
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…
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Day 85: March 25, 2024
Goal: Brainstorm ideas for indefinite pronouns Note: Examples are any, one, many, all, few, some. Tip: Think about their lexical sources, too. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try In the coming week, you will be prompted to create a series of indefinite pronouns. Examples of these kinds of pronouns are any, one, many, all, few, and some. In…
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Day 84: March 24, 2024
Goal: Document your demonstrative pronouns Note: Make a chart for the pronouns, if needed. Tip: Update your dictionary, too! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is documenting the decisions you made about demonstrative pronouns (or other strategies if you don’t have any such pronoun forms). Inserting a section in the area where you describe nouns and…
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Day 83: March 23, 2024
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…
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Day 82: March 22, 2024
Goal: Decide if you want demonstrative pronouns Note: These forms may differ from demonstrative modifiers. Tip: Consider your pronoun system as a whole. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Demonstrative pronouns differ from demonstrative modifiers in that they stand alone. In English, the modifier and pronoun forms are identical, so it’s difficult to see any difference when “those”…
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Day 81: March 21, 2024
Goal: Update your dictionary Note: Include your new pronouns. Tip: Focus on entering the main forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share To wrap up the focus on personal pronouns (there are other pronoun forms to come…), today’s task is to update your dictionary, adding entries for your new pronoun forms. If you have already done that, congratulations!…
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Day 80: March 20, 2024
Goal: Create a personal pronoun chart Note: Include any inflectional forms needed. Tip: Summarize predictable forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you’ve created all the forms and reviewed them several times over, today’s goal is to make a reference chart of personal pronoun forms for your language documentation. Having a chart will make it easier…
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Day 79: March 19, 2024
Goal: Organize your pronoun system notes Note: Focus on how pronouns interact with inflections. Tip: Reduced forms can look quite different. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure I know, I know, I know. I’ve asked you to spend quite a few days creating and thinking about pronoun forms, yet I’m asking you to spend today reviewing everything you’ve…
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Day 78: March 18, 2024
Goal: Create third-person pronouns, if needed Note: Semantic gender differs from grammatical gender. Tip: Not all languages have third-person forms. Work focus: Create/Make/List As a first note, you may have decided against having any third-person pronouns in your language. If that’s the case, you can start jotting down ideas for how you might use demonstrative…
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Day 77: March 17, 2024
Goal: Create second-person pronouns Note: Possessive pronouns may differ from modifiers. Tip: When defining in English, be sure to indicate number. Work focus: Create/Make/List Build on the work you did yesterday to create second-person pronoun forms. Everything from yesterday’s prompt applies to today (e.g. remember to create all the inflected forms you need for your…