End of Week 3! Next week we start to fill in the blanks and put everything together.

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Tracy’s Presentation
• Neil’s Presentation
• Kimchi’s Presentation

Links

• Smiley Award Writeup for Teonaht
• Low Valyrian Portal at the Dothraki Wiki

Assignments

Reading

• AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 148-150
• Matthew S. Dryer “Clause Types” [PDF]
• Doug Ball “Linear Aspects of Syntax: Ideas for Your Conlang”

Practice

• Find a natlang on Wikipedia whose basic word order is not SVO or SOV, and post it to our #evolution channel on Slack.

Mastery

• MA 6: Remember that you only have to fill this in up to 20 points! You can go over, by all means, but you do not have to. Also remember that you’re choosing between a language that takes past/non-past as basic and a language that takes perfect/imperfect as basic. Finally, for the augments, be sure you have a method for when your process doesn’t apply (and it will always fail to apply to something—even if it’s borrowings).

Backburner

• Now that you have your verbs, try putting together some sample basic sentences (e.g. one intransitive verb with one subject; one transitive verb with a subject and object, etc.).