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  • 7 - Basic Grammar

  • from Part II - Constructing Grammar
  • Jessie Peterson
  • Book:
    How to Create a Language
    Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 129-148

  • Summary

    This chapter begins the focus on grammar, which includes all the information (or “rules”) necessary to generate new, meaningful utterances in a language. The basic introduction provided in this chapter provides the foundation you will need for all the upcoming chapters. The first and second sections introduce major concepts like grammatical form, grammatical function, word order, and headedness. The third section provides a sample walkthrough of how to work with linguistic data sets to analyze a language’s grammatical patterns, a skill that is useful for conlangers to develop a stronger understanding of grammatical structures. The fourth section models the decision-making process you will follow as you make initial decisions about your conlang’s grammar.