Category: Solidify/Write/Share

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…

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!…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Goal: Enter adpositions in your dictionary Note: Include relevant grammatical information. Tip: Also add any lexical sources you created! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you have written a section on adpositions and their use in your language, you need to take time to enter any adpositions you created in your dictionary. Each adposition should have…

Goal: Write an introduction to adposition phrases Note: Highlight any required case-marking for particular adpositions. Tip: Different cases can result in different meanings! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Solidify the work you’ve done on adpositions by writing an introduction to a section on adpositions in your language’s documentation. I say “introduction” because there will likely be a…

Goal: Update your dictionary to include all forms Note: Be sure all the words you created made it in the dictionary. Tip: Some dictionaries have entries for affixes. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share One problem I frequently encounter is that I note the lexical sources I want to use for grammaticalizing a particular inflection but then forget…

Goal: Write an introduction to function Note: Some sections may be partial for now as you continue to create more features. Tip: Show nouns as they shift for all inflections the language marks. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Finally, today’s goal is to write a section introducing any inflections in your language that indicate a noun’s function.…