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Conlang Year, Day 128 prompt

Goal: Make a plan for your adjectives

Note: Decide if non-basic adjectives will come from nouns and/or verbs.

Tip: This decision is linked to adjective agreement.

Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure


Now that you have brainstormed options, today’s goal is to make a plan for your adjectives—specifically, non-basic adjectives. Regardless of whether your language has adjectives that are basic roots, you can expand your adjective inventory by using nouns and verbs as sources. 

Also decide if nouns will agree in any way with the nouns they modify. They might agree in number, class, and/or function. This decision is linked to adjective sources. For instance, if your verbs agree with subjects, adjectives coming from verbs are more likely to carry the same kind of agreement markers.

If you have decided to make a language that lacks adjectives, then use this time to make a plan for using nominal modifiers or predicative verbs.