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- Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:17 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 1045
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Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Oh, and then he comes up with a scenario whereby certain cases with no inherent restriction from occurring with inanimates cannot occur with inanimates, just because his theory says they can't since they have ending-stress - there's no data to back this up whatsoever.
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 1045
- Views: 1120498
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
The main problems I have are the sweeping and largely unexplained moves he makes to pull all the case endings into very conveniently similar forms. For example, he magically pulls an allative ending *-é out of nowhere, relegating the ending *-o (which I think itself rests on dubious evidence) to a m...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 5:08 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 1045
- Views: 1120498
The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Let's start this thread again, after 89 pages and 1 post on the old board. To kick off, I read this article by Kloekhorst the other day, on the origin of nominal accent-ablaut paradigms and ultimately the case-endings. He's got some interesting ideas, but I'm not sure how plausible some of his assum...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 12:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1277
- Views: 764818
Re: Happy things thread!
I've finally perfected the settings for my word generator so I can finally get to generating roots for my faux-Egyptian conlang.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 2009
- Views: 1068634
Re: British Politics Guide
A quick googling found this: Amongst Jews, a strong majority expressed support for the Conservative Party (63%), with around a quarter (26%) saying they voted for Labour. This builds on the plurality support for the Conservative Party shown by Jewish voters at the 2005-2015 general elections. ( Sour...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Grammar Nazis of Your Conlangs
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20733
Re: Grammar Nazis of Your Conlangs
I feel like you completely missed their point.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:34 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14781
Re: Morphologised Initial palatalizations?
Latin /ct/ more directly turned into /jt/ - this is what caused palatalisation.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 1347
- Views: 855082
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
It was an irregular development of word-final /x/ after rounded vowels, whereby it labialised to /xʷ/ and then to /f/, instead of regularly being lost following glide epenthesis.