Zompist Bboard Again

I initially thought about suggesting ʔl, but most eastern Algonquian languages (unlike, say, Ojibwe, or Iroquoian languages like Mohawk) do not have a phonemic glottal stop in the first place. Therefore (*pr) *tr *kr > tʃ is probably the most interesting option, especially if your language would hav...

Most importantly, does the above system sound realistic? Noonan states that ‘all languages have some sort of reduced complement type in opposition to the indicative’. But what exactly is a ‘reduced complement type’? Noonan defines it fairly straightforwardly as ‘any complement type that has fewer s...

At this point I think it would be useful to bring in some terminology. Dixon distinguishes between complement clause constructions and complementation strategies . The former you already know; the latter are other constructions which give a subordinate meaning but are not actually complement clause...

https://www.instagram.com/ronnaldong/ does the kind of "transition" art where 2 images share one part in common, e.g. a girl holding a balloon in a cloud where that balloon is also the yolk of an egg. I found someone else whose name I dont remember who did much the same thing but all his ...

That tree looks good to me. Although frankly I can't decide if the preposition phrase is modifying the verb or should be filling its own object slot (which would result in the whole thing coming before the verb). To me (obviously as an outsider) it feels as if both variants might be equally possible...

Taking both your answer and Zompist's remarks into account, how about something like this: [S [NP_i [N [Māte what_MASC]] [Q [tē no]]] [V [zagā be.able_ACT.PRES]] [CP [C [bi COMP]] [S [NP_i^ [(Ø) *t*_i]] [NP [ʾamak 1SG_OBL]] [V [ṣessarnākku <REL>poke_ACT.PRES]] [PP [P [ʾina across]] [NP [lāmīnu finge...

Anyone good at making syntax trees? Not sure if I treed my sentence correctly: [S [NP [N Māte] [NEG tē]] [VP [V zagā] [^CP [C bi] [VP [N ʾamak] [V ṣessarnākku] [PP [P ʾina] [N ]]]]]] Sentence in question is: Māte tē zagā bi ʾamak ṣessarnākku ʾina lāmīnu. "nothing could convince me otherwise.&q...

An adverbial phrase is defined functionally, as a phrase that functions like an adverb. This can be e.g. an adverb on its own ( "afterwards" ), a non-finite verb form ( "leaving" ), a non-finite verb phrase ( "having left the house" ), a prepositional phrase ( "aft...

You can certainly hear things like "Kommt/kommen dann morgen" sometimes, but my native speaker intuition would probably tend to say that the pronoun is not dropped syntactically here, but just phonetically (being in an unstressed utterance-initial syllable). And it's definitely much rarer ...

Huishu has created word-final dorsal stops out of nothing after a high vowel, almost certainly with a fricative intermediate: i u > ih uh > iç ux > ic uk / _# Another plausible environment for conditioned fortition would be following a nasal: mf ns ŋx > mpf nts ŋkx > mp nt ŋk (and possibly further >...

Oh, and unrelated question, is it just as probable for vowels to lengthen before glottal stops, glottalised stops (ejective, implosive, pharyngealised, or anything else classically considered emphatic), or geminate stops, as before single stops? eg. In the set *ata > aːta *aʔta > aːta *at’a > aːta ...

This scenario looks very interesting, I'm looking forward to more! ...see, this is exactly the kind of information that I really did try hard to find out but couldn't actually locate. I found a ruddy paper of Proto-Muskogean, for crying out loud, but not one on Proto-Algonquian. So, well, yes, I sho...

There are a couple of languages where /a/ has [ɰ] as a non-syllabic allophone, which in your phonology would likely be reinterpreted as /ɣ/; i.e. /aai/ > [aɰi] (/aɣi/) etc.

You could also use the glide allophone of the following vowel instead; i.e. /aai aay aau/ > [aji aɥy awu].

Interesting!

dhok wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:54 am b) I am not good at memorizing German separable verbs; they all run together.

A side note: the prefixes ge-, be- and ver- are not separable.

I would write /a e i ʌ ɘ u/ with ⟨a e i o w u⟩, so using ⟨u⟩ for /u/ and writing the central vowel with ⟨w⟩ instead. (This is quite similar to what Welsh does.) Actually, Welsh uses ⟨u⟩ for /ɨ/ and ⟨w⟩ for /u/, so the OP's scheme is closer to that than your suggestion is. Here's my own suggestion f...

If some of the falling diphthongs feel out of place, here are a few alternative suggestions for them: - */øː yː/ could break into rising diphthongs instead, giving either /we wi/ or */jo ju/ (with the latter then shifting to /jə jo/) - similarly, */oː/ could break into /wo/ or /wə/ - */ei ey ɔu/ cou...

The only reason to posit a Completive aspect is because when you transform an Active Past in completive usage into its passive, you get a verb that looks like a Mediopassive Present as the result. Corbett has suggested "non-autonomous values" to refer to a situation like the one you descr...

If what you are asking is whether its plausible to have quantifiers that look like (or have grammaticalized from) possessive phrases with number agreement, then yes, I think this could work. Words like "set/entirety", "mass/collection/amount/majority", "group/handful/minorit...

Or make it a multistage process. One vote to seek independence/unification (within a certain window of time, to prevent another "endless Brexit" scenario) and another to approve the actual plan, with "no deal" not an option. Wait... How does that work? The way I understand it, i...

/tʰ/ > /s/ in most cluster environments would indeed make a lot of sense if /pʰ/ and /kʰ/ also usually become fricatives. I'd personally tend to include a few exceptions though, for instance /tʰ/ > /t/ when adjacent to at least /s/ but quite possibly all coronal consonants, and/or /tʰ/ > /r̥/ > /r/ ...