Re: Structure of documents about your conlangs

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> >         Do you have a "standard" structure for documents explaining your
> >conlangs? I.e.: first pronunciation and phonology, then grammar; inside
> >of grammar, first the verbs and then the rules relative to nouns, etc.
>
> I tend to use the following order:
>
> Background stuff
> Phonology
> Morphology
> - Nouns
> - Adjectives
> - Verbs
> Syntax
>
> Now, that's just my entirely unscientific approach.
If you're *really* advanced in making your conlang, having a section
for discourse analysis would be neat, including extended selections of
text from differing genres of speech, as well as a full Conlang-Natlang/
Natlang-Conlang lexicon in the back.  But the core is as you mentioned.

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