Category: Create/Make/List

Goal: Create any lexical forms you need for your comparative strategy Note: Be sure to reduce any lexical forms that need to be grammaticalized for your comparative. Tip: Even if you don’t need any new forms, lay out a template to show how your language will handle comparative situations. Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is…

Goal: Create examples of headless relative clause-like situations Note: Even if your language doesn’t have these structures, show how you will translate them. Tip: Sometimes you need to figure out strategies for future translations—write these out so you don’t forget them! Work focus: Create/Make/List If your language will have headless relative clauses (or similar structures),…

Goal: Create some more examples of adverb clauses Note: Work on expanding your examples to include more complex structures. Tip: If any of your clauses require special inflections, make sure you include examples of them. Work focus: Create/Make/List Expand your work from yesterday to create more examples of adverb clauses and try to create some…

Goal: Create your first examples of adverb clauses Note: Focus on creating simple examples to demonstrate basic features and placement options. Tip: This is the first day reserved for creating adverb clauses—tomorrow will continue the work! Work focus: Create/Make/List You’ve spent time exploring and planning the structures of adverb clauses. Today’s goal is to create…

Goal: Create a strategy for joining clauses Note: Also create any forms you need to support your ideas. Tip: Make sure you provide examples, including “and/but/or.” Work focus: Create/Make/List Yesterday you explored options for joining clauses together. Today’s goal is to create the strategy (or strategies) you selected for your language and then create examples…

Goal: Create example sentences with verbal forms in nominal roles Note: At this point, you should just need to translate the examples you’ve already mapped out. Tip: If you don’t need any more examples, create more words! Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s goal is to actually create example sentences to demonstrate how your language treats clausal…

Goal: Create examples with “if/whether” Note: Focus on situations where “if/whether” would begin a noun clause. Tip: An example is “We don’t know if they are here.” Work focus: Create/Make/List Some languages have a different strategy for indicating a noun clause contains unknown or questioned information. For instance, the English “We don’t know if they…

Goal: Create sentences with cognition verbs Note: Depending on your chosen strategy, these may incorporate embedded noun clauses. Tip: An example is “I believe she wore a purple hat.” Work focus: Create/Make/List Today’s focus builds on yesterday’s, focusing on cognition verbs rather than communication verbs, as in these examples: English handles these noun clauses the…

Goal: Create sentences with communication verbs Note: Depending on your chosen strategy, these may incorporate embedded noun clauses. Tip: An example is “She said he is walking here.” Work focus: Create/Make/List A previous goal had been to figure out how your language handles situations where you might embed a noun clause (or complement clause). In…

Goal: Create conditional and evidential forms Note: If you don’t mark conditionality or evidentiality, focus on creating examples. Tip: Your examples should show how your language handles these pragmatic details. Work focus: Create/Make/List Create conditional and evidential forms for your language, as needed. If you don’t mark either conditionality or evidentiality (e.g. through an inflection…