Category: Solidify/Write/Share

Goal: Write a section on quotative strategies Note: Include the examples you created to demonstrate quotative features. Tip: If your language distinguishes types of reported speech, highlight those distinctions. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s goal is to document your work on quotative strategies and (in)direct speech. In your grammar, include the examples you created with descriptions…

Goal: Update your grammar’s adverb section Note: Incorporate the examples of comparative/superlative situations. Tip: It may work better to have a section dedicated to comparisons. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today is a documentation day. Incorporate the examples you created for adverbs in comparative and superlative situations to demonstrate how your conlang handles them—whether your language has…

Goal: Update your dictionary as needed Note: Make sure any comparative/superlative forms or sources you created made it into the dictionary. Tip: Check any handwritten notes you may have in planners, in journals, or on backs of receipts for words you intended to add! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today offers a little break between thinking about…

Goal: Expand the section on comparative forms to include superlatives Note: Incorporate examples of superlatives (or similar structures) in your language. Tip: It’s totally fine if your language has a comparative form but lacks a superlative. Just show what your language does instead! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Document your decisions on superlatives in your language by…

Goal: Write a section on comparative forms Note: Include examples of predicative and, if applicable, attributive comparatives. Tip: This information may fit best in a section on adjectives but may be a better fit in other clausal or phrasal sections. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Document your decisions on comparative forms by writing a section in your…

Goal: Document your  non-finite adverbial structures Note: Figure out the best section for this, whether it’s with dependent clauses, adverb forms, or another area. Tip: As ever, remember to include examples and descriptions! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s task is to document your non-finite adverbial structures and the decisions you’ve made about them. Figure out where…

Goal: Expand the section on dependent clauses Note: Incorporate the new information on headless relative clause strategies. Tip: You may consider adding an appendix of features not found in your language to keep them separate. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s goal is to expand your documentation of dependent clauses to include information on your headless relative…

Goal: Document your adverb clause decisions Note: Incorporate the examples you’ve created and be sure to explain them. Tip: If you have a special section for dependent clause structures, you can add this documentation to it. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s goal is to document all the decisions you’ve made about adverb clauses. Incorporate the examples…

Goal: Document your clausal coordination strategy  Note: You can add this information to your section on coordination. Tip: Don’t forget to include examples to showcase how clausal coordination works. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s goal is to document your decisions on clausal coordination by expanding the section on coordination in general. You may not need to…

Goal: Expand your documentation on noun clauses Note: Include any new information from the past few days, including gerunds and reduced clauses. Tip: You may also need to document restrictions on finite noun clauses. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Expand any documentation you have on noun clauses and related forms to include any new information from the…