Tag: conlang
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Day 78: March 18, 2024
Goal: Create third-person pronouns, if needed Note: Semantic gender differs from grammatical gender. Tip: Not all languages have third-person forms. Work focus: Create/Make/List As a first note, you may have decided against having any third-person pronouns in your language. If that’s the case, you can start jotting down ideas for how you might use demonstrative…
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Week 12: A Preview
In Week 12 of the Conlang Year prompts, you will create more personal pronouns, document your pronouns thus far (including a chart to show off all the forms of your personal pronouns!), and create demonstrative pronoun forms. Pronoun forms may feel small, but they are mighty. These forms will show up more than any noun…
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Day 77: March 17, 2024
Goal: Create second-person pronouns Note: Possessive pronouns may differ from modifiers. Tip: When defining in English, be sure to indicate number. Work focus: Create/Make/List Build on the work you did yesterday to create second-person pronoun forms. Everything from yesterday’s prompt applies to today (e.g. remember to create all the inflected forms you need for your…
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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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Week 11: A Preview
This week is a little different because I don’t yet have all the daily prompts for the week written. And so, the preview image is included here to let you know that this week’s prompts will have you creating demonstrative modifiers, brainstorming ideas for pronouns, and creating personal pronoun forms. But you’ll have to wait…