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The '''round robin conlang''' is a collaborative conlanging game in progress, begun and overseen by Pete Bleackley ([http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0910a&L=conlang&T=0&F=&S=&P=29498 here]).  To quote the rules:
<blockquote>
Each person in turn [...] creates one new rule and
one new root, plus some examples to show the consequences, and passes it
on to the next person on the list. When it gets back to me, we start
another loop, and keep going for as long as we feel necessary.
</blockquote>
==Game organisation==
The current turn order is
*Pete Bleackley
*Matthew Turnbull
*Daniel Demski
*Jeff Rollin
*Gary Shannon
*John Vertical
*Alex Fink
*Patrick Dunn
*Vincent Pisteli
*Mechthild Czapp
*Brett Williams
*Alex Bicksler
and back to Pete Bleackley to complete the round.
==Grammar==
==Grammar==



Revision as of 18:46, 10 November 2009

The round robin conlang is a collaborative conlanging game in progress, begun and overseen by Pete Bleackley (here). To quote the rules:

Each person in turn [...] creates one new rule and one new root, plus some examples to show the consequences, and passes it on to the next person on the list. When it gets back to me, we start another loop, and keep going for as long as we feel necessary.

Game organisation

The current turn order is

  • Pete Bleackley
  • Matthew Turnbull
  • Daniel Demski
  • Jeff Rollin
  • Gary Shannon
  • John Vertical
  • Alex Fink
  • Patrick Dunn
  • Vincent Pisteli
  • Mechthild Czapp
  • Brett Williams
  • Alex Bicksler

and back to Pete Bleackley to complete the round.

Grammar

1) Roots are CVC and verbal in meaning

2) Verbal 1st person is indicated by derivational suffix [-af] which triggers spirant lenition. Ex. bivaf - I ask, tiɣaf - I speak, tsʼuð˜af - I die.

3a) Dual verbal number is indicated by the particle [i.ɔ] at the end of the clause.

b) Plural verbal number is indicated by reduplicating the VC of the verbal root, copying any lenition. When [iɔ] cooccurs with this it has distributive rather than dual force. Eg. kʼéχéχaf - we (all) come (together), kʼéχéχaf iɔ - we (all) come one at a time.

4) Simple past is marked by the particle "ha" before the verb. Ex. ha bivaf iɔ - We two asked.

5) A prefix [í-] derives agents (also, it seems, some experiencers/undergoers from intransitiv roots). Note this being mark'd for high tone - default tone is not indicated. This also does not trigger spirantization. Eg. [ítig] "speaker", [ítsʼun] "mortal", [íkʼeb] "man"

6) The intensive of the verbal root is formed by suffixing -aq, which triggers gemination of the previous consonant. Eg. [bib] "to ask" [bibbaq] "to interrogate"; [tig] "to speak" [tiggaq] "to give a speech."

7) Verbal 2nd person is marked by the suffix -es, which changes the stem analogue to the 1st person. Frex: ha bives: you asked, vijes: you create (if I understood rule 1 correctly)

8) I thought I'd gently dip our toes in some larger structure, with conjunctions that go between phrases, for instance "vigi" meaning "because", that is that the first clause is implied, caused or motivated by the second: "tiggaχes vigi ha bivaf" -- You give a speech because I asked. "ha boivaf iɔ vigi kʼeves" -- We two tried because you're a man. "tsʼununnaχes iɔ vigi ha kʼéχéχes" -- You each die a terrible death because you all came.

Vocab

offset entries are derivations from the root above them

Roots

bib - ask
  • bibbaq - to interrogate
  • bimb - question
boib - try
  • boimb - an attempt
betsʼ - be_a_grain (like sand)
  • betsʼaq - be_a_powder (like flour)
  • íbetsʼ - sand
kat - shoot
  • kant - arrow
kʼéq - come
tig - speak
  • tiggaq - to give a speech
  • tiŋg - word
tsʼun - die
  • tsʼunnaq - to die a terrible, torturous death
vet – see
  • vent - sight
k'eb – be male
vij - create
  • viñj - artefact
nuk - be female

Particles

ha - simple past
iɔ - two, dual; distributive

Conjunctions

vigi - because