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Reading consult
Reading consult
Have a burning question my library or experience can quench?
I will read your entire question.
If I can answer, I will pick references from my own collection, and explain how, in my view, they bear on the subject. I will also include whatever I gleaned from them in using them to build my own conlangs, if any.
If I cannot asnwer, I will decline the request, and you will not be charged.
If I have an answer, I will send a payment link, and you will receive the answer within 7 days of payment.
45 USD
Submit:
Your question, goals of conlang, details of your conlang (up to 45 pages)
Receive:
1-4 references
A note on how each applies to your conlang.
(~100-250 words per reference)
You can send one follow-up question.
Of my references, those in some fields have been read more thoroughly than those in others.
Most familiar:
Colour terms, tense, aspect and mood prominence, basic word order, adjectives, flexible word classes, Cowen & Keltner-style emotion literature, Polynesian & Turkic phonology.
Somewhat familiar:
Harmony, noun incorporation, semantic fields, smell terms, definiteness and articles, borrowing, focus and information packaging, and the rest of the emotion literature.
Passing acquaintance:
Everything else, incl. specific reference grammars to specific languages (except Turkic, Polynesian)
Since many areas of linguistics are debated, check for disagreement by looking up papers in a service like google scholar or Litmaps.
Submit:
Your question, goals of conlang, details of your conlang (up to 45 pages)
Receive:
Translation, glossed.
Notes about missing and over-specified elements.
70 USD
+35 USD for additional passages
Translation Test
Translation Test
Is your vocabulary sufficient? Do you have a word for duplicity? Is your grammar complete and clear?
Send me a passage of your choosing (~5 sentences, 120 words), and, after translating it, I will return to you the glossed translation, and explain if in any place I found the documentation or language to be contradictory or undefined.
If you don't want to choose a passage, I will use a random passage from a book I have read, or, if you prefer, The North Wind And The Sun.
Extra passages are submitted at half price.
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