Category: Week 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!

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.

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.

Throughout this week, prompts will focus on creating indefinite pronoun forms (and related modifier forms), documenting those indefinite forms, and then preparing for a focus on clause structures and verb forms. This week ends a major unit that has focused on nouns and noun phrases. Next week will shift to a new focus on verbs!

In Week 12 of the Conlang Year prompts, you will create more personal pronouns, document your pronouns thus far (including a chart to show off all the forms of your personal pronouns!), and create demonstrative pronoun forms. Pronoun forms may feel small, but they are mighty. These forms will show up more than any noun…

This week is a little different because I don’t yet have all the daily prompts for the week written. And so, the preview image is included here to let you know that this week’s prompts will have you creating demonstrative modifiers, brainstorming ideas for pronouns, and creating personal pronoun forms. But you’ll have to wait…

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…

Day 57, February 26 Goal: Select any nominal inflections to provide in the dictionary Note: Common inflections provided include number and case. Tip: If it’s unpredictable, list it! Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure Day 58, February 27 Goal: Organize and clean up your dictionary Note: Include all the inflected forms you need for nouns. Tip: Consistent formatting…

Day 50, February 19 Goal: Create definiteness markers or more nouns Note: Some languages have multiple forms that shift for class, number, and/or function. Tip: You may not have any strategies specifically for definiteness. Work focus: Create/Make/List Day 51, February 20 Goal: Create function markers or more nouns Note: Function markers may be affixes, clitics,…