Category: Conlang Year
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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…
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Day 104: April 13, 2024
Goal: Create a negation strategy Note: You may need to create lexical sources and/or multiple strategies. Tip: Negate the sentences you recently created! Work focus: Create/Make/List Build on what you did yesterday, and actually create your negation strategies, whether that means creating new forms, grammaticalizing existing words, or creating a new column in a chart…
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Day 103: April 12, 2024
Goal: Explore options for negating verbs Note: Brainstorm potential lexical sources for a negator in your language. Tip: The negator can be an affix, particle, or auxiliary. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Today’s focus is on exploring options for negating verbs. You have a variety of options for negation strategies, such as creating an affix that attaches…
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Day 102: April 11, 2024
Goal: Create more example sentences Note: Make sure you are happy with how forms occur in clause structures. Tip: These should be basic declarative active positive clauses. Work focus: Create/Make/List Take your verbs out for a spin! Have some fun creating more clause structures in your language—these will be handy additions to your language’s grammar…
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Day 101: April 10, 2024
Goal: Map out the components of your verb structure Note: Include a variety of verb types, especially if they are marked differently. Tip: A chart or series of charts can be helpful! Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Sometimes, creating multiple elements that occur with a single head word can make it difficult to keep track of what…
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Day 100: April 9, 2024
Goal: Create examples to show non-finite verb forms Note: It’s okay if you haven’t decided how to use them in clauses yet. Tip: Recall these are the infinitive and active participle forms. Work focus: Create/Make/List Give examples to show your plan for the infinitive and active participle verb forms in your language. These may end…
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Day 99: April 8, 2024
Goal: Create any forms you need for marking tense/aspect Note: These may be particles or auxiliaries rather than affixes. Tip: You can create adverbs if you don’t want to mark T/A. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create any forms you need to mark the tense/aspect distinctions you chose to include in your language.…
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Week 15: A Preview
This week continues a focus on verbs and the inflections they can occur with, from creating more inflections to figuring out negation strategies. The end of the week shifts to documentation to make sure your verb forms are described and exemplified in your language’s grammar.
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Day 98: April 7, 2024
Goal: Create any index markers you want for your verbs Note: Provide examples—even if the examples just show the lack of index marking. Tip: If you don’t need any index markers, create more verbs! Work focus: Create/Make/List It’s time to start putting your inflectional plans into motion! Today’s focus is on creating any index markers…
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Day 97: April 6, 2024
Goal: Create verbs to work with in the coming days Note: If you have verb classes, make sure you have at least a few verbs per class. Tip: Verb type can affect case-marking on arguments. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to create more verbs—specifically verbs that will be helpful so you can test forms…