User talk:Mnransdellgreen/sandbox

Hi! As far as your Yabem article... I think you probably need some citations in the morphological typology and lexical categories sections you added. Maybe re-format the examples you put in tables...though it's probably a lot of trouble. :/ Maybe at the top of the lexical categories section, just list what all the lexical categories are before you get into the specific properties of nouns and verbs. I know this wasn't your doing but in the vocabulary section...is that really how stuff is written with capital letters? Wow. Maybe give a footnote about how to pronounce those words, if you're able to access the Ross resource.
 * :) BlakeALee (talk) 07:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Overall, I think the information in the Morphological Typology section great but there are a few sentences that seem incomplete or redundant. I would suggest combining the first two sentences into one since they express basically the same concept. Additionally, “some derivational morphology for nominalization, via the agentive suffix” seems to be an incomplete thought and needs to be more clearly tied to the sentence before it.

When you say that “the second example, the patient of a verb is combined with the agent to construct an agentive nominalized form” I am not seeing any morphology that indicates agent versus patient marking. I am assuming the two morphemes marked 3SG are these but perhaps you can add 3SG.AG vs 3SG.PAT so readers can see the difference. Especially since the agentive morpheme is the first example doesn’t match the agent marking in the second example so readers have no reference point for comparison.

As for Lexical Categories I like that you included lots of examples but I don’t see anywhere where you explicitly state the lexical categories of Yabem. This section goes over primarily how nouns and verbs undergo affixation and it seems, based on what is written, Yabem only has nouns, verbs, and maybe possessive words? Does Yabem not have other “traditional” categories like adjectives, adverbs, etc? DanniiYarbro (talk) 21:22, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If a language lacks traditional categories such as adjective, it might be good to explicitly state this (with citation of course!).Gholton (talk) 21:19, 16 February 2017 (UTC)