(Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

[HolyHandGrenade!]

Oh, so like serial verb constructions? @LinguoFranco: Are your verbs inflected? And if so, for what?

Oh wait I got confused I was thinking of serial verbs, coverbs are a different thing

[LinguoFranco]

Oh, so like serial verb constructions? @LinguoFranco: Are your verbs inflected? And if so, for what?

I have not quite decided yet, as most of my conlang is still in the brainstorming phase. I do, at the very least, have it where tens are conjugated for evidentiality. There is also relative tense marking instead of absolute tense.

Instead of there being a dedicated morphology tense affix like the English -ed, tense is implied in the conlang. For instance, the aforementioned evidential system implies past tense, while the irrealis mood implies future tense. I'm going for an aspect-prominent morphology than a tense-prominent language.

As for the co-verbs, I heard that they can occur as affixes, but don't quote me on that.

[YoungConlanger]

How much "finished" (or more like how much not-drafty) a conlang should/is encouraged to be to participate in a relay?
& in particular, is my conlang Proto-Pehia fleshed out enough to be "elligible" to be in a relay?
Can relays anyhow improve a conlang?

[Arayaz]

How much "finished" (or more like how much not-drafty) a conlang should/is encouraged to be to participate in a relay?

You'll end up making whatever you need that you don't have. In general, I'd say any size of lexicon is fine, but try to have completed at the least a solid picture of the language's grammatical structure.

Can relays anyhow improve a conlang?

Absolutely.

[TBPO]

How much "finished" (or more like how much not-drafty) a conlang should/is encouraged to be to participate in a relay?

You'll end up making whatever you need that you don't have. In general, I'd say any size of lexicon is fine, but try to have completed at the least a solid picture of the language's grammatical structure.

Can relays anyhow improve a conlang?

Absolutely.

Ooof... I was afraid that I will be absolutely unprepared if Arkasian will not have full 207-word Swadesh List...

[Trailsend]

How much "finished" (or more like how much not-drafty) a conlang should/is encouraged to be to participate in a relay?
& in particular, is my conlang Proto-Pehia fleshed out enough to be "elligible" to be in a relay?
Can relays anyhow improve a conlang?

Ooof... I was afraid that I will be absolutely unprepared if Arkasian will not have full 207-word Swadesh List...

I think the main consideration is just that the less material you have, the more you'll have to invent in order to complete your torch, and the more you have to invent, the longer it will take you. So if you feel like your language is pretty incomplete, you'll want to leave yourself as much extra time as you can to work on the torch.

[HolyHandGrenade!]

What are common wh-words that English doesn’t have?

[Arayaz]

I think a WH-verb — "to do what" — is pretty common?

[Trailsend]

Some from languages I know:

"What kind"
"How many"
"To where" (English used to have "whither")
"From where" (English used to have "whence")
"Through where/via what"
"How much does __ cost"
"How long (time)"
"In what relation to"*

*I don't think this one is common, actually, I've only seen one language do it but I thought it was so cool XD It was a question word that you asked about two objects, and the answer was what kind of relation they were in. Like:

Q: "[question-word] the dog and the house?"
A: "The dog is behind the house."

[Khemehekis]

There's the classic "what number/how-manyth":

"What number president was Lincoln?"
"Lincoln was the sixteenth."

Then there are two WH-words I have in Kankonian, "like what" (eur) and "or?" (hing).

Eur appears in predicate adjective position:

Dzhakli as eur?
Dzhakli PRS like_what
What's Dzhakli like?

Hing is used as a connective, in questions asking whether something is one thing or the other. It is placed between the choices, and the words are in normal sentence order:

Ar akranos luimxsh hing wawa?
2s take-FUT paper ALT plastic
Will you take paper or plastic?