Vreleksá

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Hey,

Do you sort out your notes into dissertations on your conlangs, or know of other peoples dissertations?

I would really like to read some of these when I have time, they could help with mine, or just with how other languages could/do work.

My document on Aert is over 3000 words right now, but it's getting bigger as I discover more things a language has to be able to do Wink

Thanks!

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:

So far all I have for Emitare and PKM is a spreadsheet each of all the various grammatical forms. I know that many people do write grammars of their conlangs (and I have heard it said that if your grammar's less than 50 pages, your conlang's nowhere near 'done').

I need to write at least a PKM grammar this summer, 'specially since that's the era I'm going to try to thoroughly complete this summer.

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: Dissertations

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Thanks for the links, elding raigmore! Those will be really useful for mine, and for other (con)linguistic interests Smile

@Tolkien_Freak: well, I know my conlang is nowhere near done, but 50 pages! Shocked

Mine's only 17! I haven't gone into incredible depth yet, especially for the phonologies and pronunciation, and I know I'll be adding lots of grammar notes once they come up in translation challenges/etc, but still! (better get busy

)

I'm just wondering, how do you write a grammar for an older/archaic version of your conlang (unless you work backwards)? I imagine you changed things around to better suit what you were trying to accomplish for your 'lang, so some grammar changes etc might be unlikely in an evolutionary sense.

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:05 am Post subject:

killerken · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 134 Location: Florida

When I first started conlanging, I wrote everything down in a spiral notebook. But I found myself crossing things out and changing stuff all the time, so now it's all just in my head. I have vocabulary, tense indicators, and cases written down, but that's it. I do know that it's no where near 50 pages long if I were to write it. Probably more like 10.
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achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

My average grammar is about 2 pages... Though, dictionaries for all of my languages including the ones not posted here are at least 300 words. I sort of work through vocab building and then when I stumble across something that might need a grammatical rule I make one. Smile

I often end up putting that rule into the dictionary as "suffix"/"prefix"/"infix" or "part of speech" or something, so all I have written down for any given language really amounts to verb conjugations, word order, and numbers.
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