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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
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Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Opinions hold zero argumentational weight. Well, to be fair, most diachronical argumentation ultimately boils down to ‘it looks convincing/unconvincing to me’… Sure. What's also true is that when there is an established hypothesis X and a fringe hypothesis Y, saying 'X looks unconvincing' does noth...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:54 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3752
- Views: 458046
Re: Random Thread
Also, pop music that still sounded somewhat like 1950s pop music was still produced for a while in the 1960s. Oh, of course. My parents were born in the 1920s and were still buying music albums in the 1980s. Nothing any of the kids wanted to hear, and they never bought anything resembling a rock al...
- Thu May 30, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 324
- Views: 341671
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
Ketsuban wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 9:12 am And Fenwick, writing in 2016 and well aware of Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, points out that the existing well-documented process of s-mobile is a more parsimonious explanation than a magic fricative which turns into a pumpkin as soon as someone tries to write it.
- Thu May 30, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
For the Sanskrit word you quoted, see Gamkrelidze & Ivanov (1995): Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans You could have summarised the argument rather than expect me to get a copy of a book, but it doesn't matter since I have more: Tocharian A ākär , Lithuanian ãšara . More fool me for thinking ...
- Thu May 30, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Thank you - a valuable resource.
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
As I recall, Talskubilos is Octavia, under a different name. Yes, Talskubilos is the very same person as Octavià. And his misspelling and his misuse of the word afraid is a trademark of his. I don't think he always fears that this or that is true when he says he was 'affraid', rather that he thinks...
- Wed May 29, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
My point is although these words are more or less distantly related, they can't be derived from a single PIE protoform. I'm affraid Fenwick and other scholars deceive themselves. :( Talskubilos, are you related to Octavia? (They posted on a similar topic about 5 years ago.) As I recall, Talskubilos...
- Tue May 28, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Do you think there's still artifacts bearing evidence of historical Indo-European languages waiting to be found which can improve our reconstructions, or is it more likely that we have everything we'll ever get and the best we can hope for is philologists finding specks of gold in their pans? It is...
- Tue May 28, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 972
- Views: 1087155
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 ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2109014
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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 arguments of the non-finite verb itself....
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 719839
Re: Happy things thread!
This finally went online ! (Took long enough...) Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2109014
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
"Default" might be a better word here... I do agree that "me" etc. is the default form in English (and "moi" in French)! OK, ‘default’ is a far better word here. Then ‘marked-nominative languages’ might be better termed ‘default-accusative languages’, and so on. But ma...
Re: Caizu
I also started learning English at 10 - and like you, I am thus not a native speaker. My point was an attempt at a reductio ad absurdum of the idea that Europe, during the centuries when Latin was a widely used language of liturgy and scholarship, had native Latin speakers. Or that modern Copts are...
Re: Caizu
If Europe had native Latin speakers in the Middle and Early Modern Ages, wouldn't that mean that, by the same logic, I'm a native English speaker? Were you raised bilingually in German and English? No, I started to learn English at 10. Which is probably not that much later than when medieval Europe...
- Wed May 22, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 70999
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 711
- Views: 1065644
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Ist das Platt? Is that Low German? Jo, so twischen de Skandinavischespraken för miene Jorkischespraake studeren, un miene Famieljengeschicht söken, ik dache, dat ik versöken wull, en beten von dat Platt to lernen. Yes, so between studying the Scandinavian languages for my Yorkish language, and look...
- Sun May 19, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Prehistoric migrations from the Near East to North Africa?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 435
Re: Prehistoric migrations from the Near East to North Africa?
Thank you, that looks useful!
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Prehistoric migrations from the Near East to North Africa?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 435
Prehistoric migrations from the Near East to North Africa?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that there is archaeogenetic evidence of two prehistoric migrations from the Near East back to North Africa, one near the end of the last Ice Age, and one in the Neolithic, but I can't find any reference. Can anybody around here help me find it? Of course I tried...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4731
- Views: 2109014
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Where does Swedish-Norwegian-Danish -en definite article come from? ON inn, which IIRC further back was originally a demonstrative, which is also reflected by South Jutish æ even though that comes before the noun under WGmc influence (I have heard that Jutland was originally WGmc rather than NGmc-s...