User talk:Swashio/sandbox

Daniel's Peer Review

General Comments This seems like a pretty good first draft. All the material seems there and the rest of the comments will be minor nitpicks. One thing that sticks out, however, is that there are no links to other Wikipedia pages. I would recommend incorporating those before the final version. In addition, it would be nice to have the Wikipedia Language Infobox.

Lead It seems like there is a typo in the following sentence: 'Religion is engrained [should be 'ingrained'] in the language, by including.' Also, 'by including' sounds off coming after the comma, but this could be a matter of personal taste. What does it mean to be a dialect of a group of languages? ('It is a dialect of the Northern Yukian languages'). Do these languages form a dialect continuum? Besides these nitpicks, great lead!

Phonology Goes beyond the bare minimum. Some more examples would be appreciated, such as examples of words for each syllable structure.

Morphology Double check to make sure sentences are complete: 'examples of these include those that indicate ownership, such as body parts or'. Would be helpful to include examples of prefixation, suffixation or enclitics.

Syntax Looks great! Would add whether the language is nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive, if applicable. Same with case agreement!

Final Remarks It is exciting seeing this Wikipedia page come to life. Keep up the good work

Qwertqwert128 (talk) 02:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Swashio peer review

Swashio Great job! It was very interesting and informative! :)

Below are my suggestions:

Introduction: Explain a little bit more about what you mean when you say that religion is ingrained in the language Maybe put how there are no recordings of Yuki in the introduction, this is super cool/interesting/a little sad. Also, I'm not really sure myself how to add the little table in the corner summarizing the introduction, but it is really nice when articles have it. It make the introduction immediately informative and easy to understand.

Phonology Vowels /i/ and /e/ → you could add the word ‘allophone’ if you choose, but just providing the definition and example you have makes it really clear so whatever you choose! If there are no recording of Yuki, where did the data come from? Findings from linguists, or writings from people who spoke Yuki? Maybe explain what glottalized means- does it mean that the phonemes are pronounced further back?

Syllable Structure - Tones Maybe include a table of examples of syllables, and/or a description of which syllable structures are most common. Also, an example of a tonal minimal pair would be super cool if you can find one. By this I mean an example of when changing the tone changes the word. Maybe also add an explanation/reason for why linguists cannot agree on how many tones there are in the language.

Morphology “Prefixation in Yuki is extremely rare, examples of these include those that indicate ownership, such as body parts or .” - did you mean to add something? Add some more examples of morphological processes

Syntax Maybe add some more examples?

Notes Explain abbreviations (such as VP, SOV, OSV) even though it is pretty obvious to us in the class what they mean. I would include a fuller introduction to each section just explaining a bit more about what is most important about the section. Giving an overview of each of the chapters/paragraph for each section (phonology, syntax, morphology etc) in your grammar is a good way to capture the main points.

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