Category: Solidify/Write/Share

Goal: Update your dictionary with adverbs Note: Don’t forget to include any new roots you created to support the process. Tip: Some adverbs may be better documented as subentries within another entry. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Spend your time today going through your dictionary and making sure you’ve entered all the new forms you created while…

Goal: Write a section on adverbs Note: Include spatial, temporal, manner, and degree/discourse adverbs. Tip: Show how they are used and, where needed, how they are formed. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you have done a lot of work on adverbs, it’s time to document their forms. Remember to include information on all the kinds…

Goal: Make a chart for your numbers Note: Add enough entries to highlight number forms, including compound forms. Tip: Enter any unique roots in the dictionary. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Expand your number section in your language document by making a table/chart for your numbers. Add enough entries to highlight all your number forms, including a…

Goal: Write a section on numbers and counting Note: Focus on describing the number base system and how any compounds are formed. Tip: Describe how cardinal and ordinal forms differ (if they do). Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Document the work you’ve done on numbers by writing a section on numbers and counting. In the section, be…

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…