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- Wed May 29, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 922
- Views: 1085392
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The discussion following the post you quoted includes links to a pair of papers by Rhona Fenwick which I think adequately address the entire topic without any need to posit a Wanderwort. The Anatolian terms are just the result of s-mobile; the irregular metathesis from *meh₂l- to *h₂eml- (> *h₂ebl-...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3048
- Views: 2861054
Re: Conlang Random Thread
Always they look good in some combinations and ugly in others. And it's hard to make them look good while following my constraints, such as always having penultimate stress on the verb. Same here more or less. One of the big challenges in my polysynthetic conlang is getting the inflectional suffixe...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70633
Re: Resources Thread
Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that discuss this aspect of French morphology? Clitics are morphemes… I’m wondering if you perhaps mean ‘affixes’? In response to which I submit that ‘clitic’ and ‘affix’ aren’t actually meaningful concepts at all, in a cross-lingui...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70633
Re: Resources Thread
Alright, disregard that question. Is anyone aware of some paper that discusses the potential grammaticalisation of French verbal clitics to morphemes? Um, French verbal clitics are already morphemes, and always have been…! Really? I thought they were still clitics. So what are some papers that disc...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70633
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70633
Re: Resources Thread
Discussion of polysynthetic tendencies in French - is anyone aware of some other paper on the same subject, which does something more than a passing mention that je and the like are clitics? Personally, I’ve come to feel that any discussion about ‘polysynthesis’ should be dismissed if it doesn’t be...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 922
- Views: 1085392
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Since I know people here will at least get a kick out of it: here is one recent article draft / essay by Alexis Manaster Ramer on an "Efficient Theory", which seems to be suggesting vocalic values of laryngeals as primary and consonantal ones as secondary — though the details are not part...
- Tue May 28, 2024 6:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 922
- Views: 1085392
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Does anyone have any unconventional ideas on the pronunciation of laryngeals? Since I know people here will at least get a kick out of it: here is one recent article draft / essay by Alexis Manaster Ramer on an "Efficient Theory", which seems to be suggesting vocalic values of laryngeals ...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:54 am
- Forum: End Matter
- Topic: (Inner) Skou
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10434
Re: (Inner) Skou
After a long hiatus I tried to resume transcribing these changes, and almost immediately ran into issues with *ɡʷ in Sangke: *gʷ → tʃ (in bound prefixes, free pronouns and nouns) *gʷ → f (in free pronouns) The issue for the first change here is that he actually gives quite a different chronology: Th...
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: How did Mapos Buang develop a uvular series?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 205
Re: How did Mapos Buang develop a uvular series?
[…] but because Oceanic languages tend not to have a uvular series I'm curious to know how Mapos Buang got one. Proto-Oceanic had uvular *q, which seems like a sufficiently likely source to me. Most of the Oceanic languages ended up getting rid of it, but clearly Mapos Buang didn’t. (I think quite ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2095111
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
What are you unsure about here? Which constructions exist, which cases are used with them, and the extent to which they matter. You mean things like the AcI or the absolute ablative? Don’t know what the ‘AcI’ is, but not really like the absolute ablative: rather, which case is used for the argument...
- Mon May 27, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2095111
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:34 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 470
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
I preferred the use of translation, but with globalization it would require organizations to set prescriptive standards, I can't say I've ever seen anyone call the IPA an organization. :) The International Phonetic Association isn’t an organisation? (They being the ones who maintain the Internation...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 470
Re: Names, nouns and their (phonological) restrictions
Names are just nouns, except when they're not. That is, they are not a syntactic or morphological category, and in general they won't have any distinctive phonology. They start off transparent and understandable. Aside from what you’ve mentioned here, they also tend to have some syntactic restricti...
- Sun May 26, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 319
- Views: 340629
- Sun May 26, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1220
- Views: 718274
Re: Happy things thread!
Very fascinating and important work!
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3048
- Views: 2861054
Re: Conlang Random Thread
They don't have to be a formal word class, just express the concepts that conjunctions typically do. Cuz I'm quite aware some use adpostions or special verb forms to serve conjunctive functions . Like "with" also being used to mean "and" or the Ethiopian Semitic "gerundives...
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3048
- Views: 2861054
Re: Conlang Random Thread
All languages have some way of expressing basical logical operations like "and" and "or". But the concepts are not usually expressed in Middle Egyptian. Could this not be an accident of attestation? I find it rather difficult to believe that people wouldn't have needed to talk a...
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Darren's Mitsiefa Thread
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6289
Re: Darren's Mitsiefa Thread
While it's a bizarre analysis, it's the biggest discrepancy between consonant phones and phonemes I've ever seen – on average more than 6 distinct realisations of each phoneme. And yes, obviously it's complete bunk. Moloko (Chadic) has a single vowel phoneme with 5 realisations, plus another 5 real...
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1948
- Views: 1021696
Re: British Politics Guide
Is Sunak insane? It does seem quite likely, doesn’t it? At some point you do have to admit it as a serious possibility. (Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I like Starmer quite a lot, from what I’ve seen of him.) The explanation I have read is that he has given up on winning the general election a...