The BG Language Creation Guide

#7: Second Collaboration

This collaboration focuses on your phonology and verbal system. Please make sure you have access to both these assignments in class and please choose a new partner to work with. You and your partner should look over the phonology and verbal morphology assignments and fill out this sheet for one another. You will add five new verbs to your partner's language. As you did in the last collaborative assignment, be aware of your partner's language's grammatical structure when you do this. This includes any morphological limitations and phonetic and phonological structures. Once again, email a copy to your partner and to me.

• From: yourname
• Creator of: yourlanguagename To: partner'sname
• Creator of: Partner's Language Name:
• Phonology:
  • The first phoneme which you have split into allophones is:
  • Its allophones are:
  • Their distribution is:
  • The second phoneme which you have split into allophones is:
  • Its allophones are:
  • Their distribution is:
• Two ways in which your pronoun system differs from mine:
• Verbal Morphology:
  • Your tense system comprises:
  • Agreement Inflections on your verbs:
  • Verbal negation is accomplished by:
  • When marking for agreement, tense and negation co-occur:
• The verb you made that I wish I had is:
• A check for ungrammatical forms and presentation errors:
  • Any verbs or pronouns which use a segment not allowed by the phonetic description of the language--specify
  • Any problems with how verbs or pronouns are transcribed in the word list such as use of English orthographic convensions rather than phonetic transcription--specify.
  • Any pronouns or verbs you find which violate maximum syllable--specify
  • Any nouns, pronouns or verbs that violate allophony: specify.
  • Any errors in the use of hyphens to separate morphemes--specify
• Practice translations. When doing these practice translations, use your partner's language, following the grammatical rules as s/he has specified them. Note that we have not yet decided upon word order. That means you do not know if pronouns are placed before or after the verb. Simply do not include the pronoun itself in your translation. For example: to translate "3s walk" simply write "walk-s".
  • I translate "1p present tense sing" as ""
  • I translate "2s past be called" as ""
  • I translate "3s future negative speak" as ""
  • I translate "3p past negative lie" as ""