Category: Conlang Year
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Week 17: A Preview
The main areas of focus this week are wrapping up work on passive (or antipassive) strategies and then exploring and creating strategies for a causative. In other words, it’s a week of valency-shifting!
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Day 112: April 21, 2024
Goal: Explore options for active/passive distinctions Note: Find a strategy that is appropriate for your syntactic alignment. Tip: The focus here is on a valency-reduction strategy. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Another type of inflection that can occur with verbs is passivization. This inflection is special, though, because it actually changes the valency of a transitive verb…
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Day 111: April 20, 2024
Goal: Create new words with their full dictionary entries Note: Make sure all lexical sources made it into the dictionary, too. Tip: Find a rhythm that works to create and document! Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Now that you’ve expanded your dictionary entries for verbs, spend the day creating some new verbs and entering their information into…
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Day 110: April 19, 2024
Goal: Comb through dictionary entries to check for accuracy Note: Continue updating any verb inflections you need to add. Tip: Write up a section on how entries are formatted. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure It’s another organization kind of day, with a continued goal of updating dictionary entries and checking to make sure all the entries are…
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Day 109: April 18, 2024
Goal: Review verb inflections to add in dictionary entries Note: Focus especially on any forms that are irregular or not fully predictable. Tip: It can be helpful even if the forms are rather predictable. Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure You’ve written up information about verb inflections and entered verbs into the dictionary, but today’s focus is a…
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Day 108: April 17, 2024
Goal: Write a section describing verb negation Note: If you have more than one strategy, be sure to provide examples. Tip: Present examples in positive/negative pairs. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is on documenting the choices you made about verb negation. You may have decided to incorporate more than one strategy (e.g. some verbs use…
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Day 107: April 16, 2024
Goal: Write section on tense/aspect distinctions Note: Even if you don’t mark T/A, show examples with possible translations. Tip: Explain your system so Future You will be able to use the features. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today continues work on language documentation, focusing on describing how your language handles tense/aspect distinctions. Even if your language lacks…
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Day 106: April 15, 2024
Goal: Write an introduction to your verbs Note: Focus on any verb class distinctions and indexing markers that you have. Tip: Remember to use example sentences you’ve created. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s goal is to write an introduction to your verb section in your language documentation. Focus first on describing any verb class distinctions you…
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Week 16: A Preview
This week begins with a focus on documenting the verb inflections you’ve created so far, updating your dictionary entries to ensure all newly created words made it into your dictionary, and exploring options for differentiating active and passive voice.
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Day 105: April 14, 2024
Goal: Start documenting your verb inflections Note: If you haven’t already made charts, now is the time to begin! Tip: Focus on putting information you need together in one place. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today begins a four-day focus on officially documenting all the inflections you’ve created for your verbs, beginning with creating any inflectional charts…