Category: Prompt
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Day 76: March 16, 2024
Goal: Create first-person pronouns Note: Pronouns are prone to suppletive forms. Tip: Pronouns may hold inflections lost in the noun system. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s task is to actually create your first-person pronouns! If you don’t have any nominal inflections in your language, you may only have one form to create (which will then be…
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Day 75: March 15, 2024
Goal: Brainstorm ideas for personal pronouns Note: Languages typically have first- and second-person distinctions, at the least. Tip: These may be old forms with no sources. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Personal pronouns is a series of pronouns that indicate grammatical person. The table below describes the basic referents of personal pronouns for singular and plural forms—that…
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Day 74: March 14, 2024
Goal: Update your dictionary with demonstrative forms Note: Keep a list of grammaticalized forms. Tip: Remember to add entries for any new forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Update your dictionary to include the demonstrative forms you created—and be sure to enter any new lexical words you made to support the system. As a small piece of…
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Day 73: March 13, 2024
Goal: Write a section on demonstrative modifiers Note: Describe all the forms your demonstratives may take. Tip: Showcase your system with examples! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s task is to write a section in your language’s documentation on demonstrative modifiers. Be sure to incorporate examples that demonstrate any distinctions made in your demonstrative system and to…
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Day 72: March 12, 2024
Goal: Create demonstrative modifiers Note: Create proto-forms and reduced forms, as needed. Tip: These forms co-occur with a head noun. Work focus: Create/Make/List Now that you’ve spent time brainstorming ideas for the demonstrative modifiers in your language, take time today to actually create any forms you need, which may mean creating new proto-forms for lexical…
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Day 71: March 11, 2024
Goal: Explore options for demonstratives Note: You can have different levels and types of distinctions! Tip: Connect the options to ideas for lexical sources. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Demonstrative forms are often distance-oriented or person-oriented, and, in the majority of natlangs, demonstratives have a two- or three-way distinction. (Some languages only have one demonstrative form without…
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Day 70: March 10, 2024
Goal: Decide if modifiers will agree with nouns Note: Focus on any modifiers that are basic in your language. Tip: Your decision should reflect the larger system. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s focus is on whether your modifiers will agree with the nouns they co-occur with. Modifiers can agree in number, class, and/or case (i.e. any…
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Day 69: March 9, 2024
Goal: Review and update your noun documentation Note: Look through your notes to ensure you didn’t miss anything. Tip: Don’t forget to update charts, if needed. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure As the final day (at least for a while) specifically focusing on nouns and the grammatical forms they can co-occur with, the task of the day…
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Day 68: March 8, 2024
Goal: Write an overview for possession Note: Incorporate the examples you created yesterday. Tip: It helps to explain each set of examples! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is documenting the decisions you’ve made about possessive forms by writing an overview, including examples for any different grammatical types of possession you created. Even if you didn’t…
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Day 67: March 7, 2024
Goal: Create forms for possessive constructions Note: This may mean making templates to show word order. Tip: Provide at least one example for each. Work focus: Create/Make/List If you needed to create new markers for possessive constructions, you were tasked with selecting the lexical sources for those markers yesterday. Today’s goal is to actually create…