Tag: conlang
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Day 70: March 10, 2024
Goal: Decide if modifiers will agree with nouns Note: Focus on any modifiers that are basic in your language. Tip: Your decision should reflect the larger system. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s focus is on whether your modifiers will agree with the nouns they co-occur with. Modifiers can agree in number, class, and/or case (i.e. any…
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Day 69: March 9, 2024
Goal: Review and update your noun documentation Note: Look through your notes to ensure you didn’t miss anything. Tip: Don’t forget to update charts, if needed. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure As the final day (at least for a while) specifically focusing on nouns and the grammatical forms they can co-occur with, the task of the day…
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Day 68: March 8, 2024
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…
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Day 67: March 7, 2024
Goal: Create forms for possessive constructions Note: This may mean making templates to show word order. Tip: Provide at least one example for each. Work focus: Create/Make/List If you needed to create new markers for possessive constructions, you were tasked with selecting the lexical sources for those markers yesterday. Today’s goal is to actually create…
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Day 66: March 6, 2024
Goal: Identify any possessive markers you need Note: Select the lexical sources for any new markers you want to create. Tip: These may be adpositions or affixes. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure The strategies you came up with for possession may require creating new grammatical markers. If so, use today to think through what lexical sources you…
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Day 65: March 5, 2024
Goal: Consider different types of possession Note: You can use different strategies for different types. Tip: Your strategy may involve case and/or word order. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Some languages distinguish between alienable and inalienable possession, marking those relationships differently. Inalienable possession typically refers to a relationship between possessor and possessed that is a more inherent…
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Day 64: March 4, 2024
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…
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Week 10: A Preview
Day 64, March 4 Goal: Enter adpositions in your dictionary Note: Include relevant grammatical information. Tip: Also add any lexical sources you created! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Day 65, March 5 Goal: Consider different types of possession Note: You can use different strategies for different types. Tip: Your strategy may involve case and/or word order. Work…
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Day 63: March 3, 2024
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…
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Day 62: March 2, 2024
Goal: Consider how adpositions and case will interact Note: You may want a preferred order for multiple adposition phrases. Tip: Strict word order can correlate with strict phrase order. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure If you have a case-marking language, you need to consider how your new adpositions will interact with those cases. Common lexical sources for…