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Ideas for Grammar Building

aramis

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I don't quite see the benefit of this for anyone who isn't familiar with both the selected languages. I suppose one could google for grammars in English (or Danish ;)), but I'm not sure how easy they would be to find on the Internet.

I'd be more interested in a set of tables that one could roll up grammatic rules on. I wouldn't know where to begin, though.


Hans

Let's see... without assigning frequencies... and remembering I'm an elementary educator, not a linguist. Just throwing out some ideas, unconstrained by "what's been used"...

General order options:
S-V-O
S-O-V
O-S-V
V-S-O
V-O-S
O-V-S
Multiple
irrelevant - syntactic markers instead

Adjectives, adverbs
Before modified word
After modified word
prefix modified word
suffix modified word
separate location - before general order
separate location - after general order
word with prefix indicating direction to modified word
word with Suffix indicating direction to modified word
multiple

prepositions and subordinate clauses
before modified word
after modified word
marker word and separate sentence follows modified sentence.
modifier sentence before modified sentence, modified word replaced with marker.
Separate sentence before.
Separate sentence after.

Locative ordering
Largest to smallest (Face's Nose)
Smallest to largest (Nose on face)
Closest to furthest (Face Nose implies you're facing away from speaker)
Furthest to closest (Face Nose implies you're facing the speaker)
indeterminate - marker used (Face's nose's nostrils; Jenna of Arc in France )

Verb Tense Marking
Particle leading sentence
Particle trailing sentence
particle as standard adverb
particle as reversed adverb (if adverbs lead verb, then tense particle follows)
Verb prefix
Verb suffix
Separate verb
Not marked - implied
multiple.

Noun Number Marking, Gender Marking
Word/clause before noun
Word/clause after noun
Prefix
Suffix
Before Sentence - same S/O sequence as sentence
After sentence - same S/O sequence
Bracketing sentence - modifies closest noun
 
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