Zompist Bboard Again

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.

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...

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...

I've finally perfected the settings for my word generator so I can finally get to generating roots for my faux-Egyptian conlang.

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...

I feel like you completely missed their point.

Latin /ct/ more directly turned into /jt/ - this is what caused palatalisation.

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.