Category: Solidify/Write/Share

Goal: Document your NP negation strategy Note: Write a section detailing your strategy and then update your dictionary, if needed. Tip: It may make sense to combine this section with another. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Document the decisions you made about negating noun phrases. If this strategy overlaps with another, it may make sense to combine…

Goal: Explore strategies for negating nouns Note: Think about how your language might say phrases like “not the rabbit.” Tip: This strategy may be the same as other negation in your language. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try You previously came up with ways to say phrases like “no rabbits,” but today’s prompt focuses on a different kind…

Goal: Update your dictionary Note: Make sure you include all the new adjective forms you have created. Tip: You may need to include inflected forms in the head of the entry. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share It’s a cleaning day! Use today to clean up your documentation and update your dictionary, making sure you create dictionary entries…

Goal: Expand your adjective section Note: Demonstrate ordering of modifiers and any inflectional marking. Tip: Use the NPs you’ve created as examples in your description. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you have introduced your modifiers in a section on adjectives, expand the information to include their uses in noun phrases. Describe where adjectives typically occur…

Goal: Write an introduction to adjectives Note: Focus on where adjectives come from in your language. Tip: You may need to split them into “noun-y” and “verb-y” forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today the focus shifts to documenting the decisions you’ve made about modifiers in the past week or so. Write an introduction to a section…

Goal: Update your dictionary Note: Document the compounds and derived forms you’ve created. Tip: It helps to make entries for derivational affixes. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share The goal for today is to update your dictionary with the new compound and derived forms you have created. As you write entries for the new words, you should also…

Goal: Document compound and derivation forms Note: If needed, use charts to show how a variety of phonological forms come together. Tip: Specify whether compounds are head-initial or head-final. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is documenting how your language forms compounds and uses derivations to create new words. It may be helpful for you to…

Goal: Write a section on your valency-increasing strategy Note: It may make more sense to include this information with your verb inflections. Tip: Incorporate the example sentences you created. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus turns to documentation of the causative (or other valency-increasing strategy) you created. Depending on how you chose to create the form,…

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…

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…