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Rounin: So you're thinking that their difficulty with plurals is phonologically influenced? While I think it purely has to do with differences in grammar. Though yesterday I happened to observe the following: I was watching the YouTube channel ReacThing which is hosted by a Korean woman called Zoey....

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I've had trouble explaining so I'm just going to use examples. This is Standard Japanese and well attested as occurring in the Muromachi period, which is part of why I had difficulty. Another reason is that it seems to do two things that sound changes are said not to do, namely, act on specific par...

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Linguistcat: Huh? What exactly were the sound changes for /k/?

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StrangerCoug wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:50 pm
Qwynegold wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 2:09 am Just lenite it when intervocalic and unstressed, or between two unstressed syllables?
I like

Now I came up with another suggestion: in the environment V_V[+closed syllable].

Qwynegold

The omissive pronoun This is an idea I've been thinking about, but I don't know if it's good. A pronoun, that I'm calling "omissive" for now, which is used for marking that something has been omitted from the sentence. I can think of three usages for it. One is when you omit a noun after ...

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Do you know if this is true when they speak languages like Italian, where the plural is audibly different from the singular (English plurals, for example, usually have only a tiny difference between them and the singular phonetically, unless they have a borrowed plural form, or an inherited irregul...

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Intro This is an old IAL project of mine that I've started working on again. I don't have any words finalized yet, so I'm going to just use glossing to show you how I've been thinking about the syntax. The main idea behind the grammar is to make everything as simple as possible, so that it will be ...

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I've mentioned this bit about Spanish and its gap strategy (as defined by WALS) a few times here on the ZBB (probably three), and how it's different from English, but it looks like everyone here has forgotten my usual explanation/rant (or maybe you guys never read it :lol: ) Huh, I've never seen it...

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Okay, so que is some kind of relative pronoun, and you can have an invariant relativization marker in the gap strategy. I wonder if the pronoun retention strategy would not be better (easier) in an IAL, even though that's uncommon. So you'd say something like "boy buy book, he [did something]&q...

Qwynegold

Thank you! I'll look at that more closely later, because I'm going to sleep right now. But would you mind providing glossing for the Spanish sentences?

Qwynegold

I was working with an old IAL of mine, that I've never gotten far with, and decided to read about relative clauses on WALS. Apparently the gap strategy is by far the most common type. This is the type used by Japanese, so I thought this must be most common among SOV languages. But to my surprise it ...

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It couldn't be preceded by a consonant.

Just lenite it when intervocalic and unstressed, or between two unstressed syllables?

Qwynegold

I'm late to this thread, but I'll try the first challenge.

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Linguoboy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:03 am
Linguoboy wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:55 am“Apartmentmate” sounds quite awkward so speakers of US English don’t use it

zyxw59, almost simultaneously elsewhere on the ZBB wrote:my apartmentmates
GODDAMMIT.

Qwynegold

I hope this thread is allright to post this in. I'm trying to find the right lyrics to Courtney Love - Mono. Different sources write it slightly differently, but many say something like this: Oh god I'd give you anything to hear you say that I was right and you were wrong Oh god before I leave this ...

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The language I've been working with lately is an old proto-lang, so 5) taking something from its proto-lang is not possible. 7) borrowing is practically not possible either, because I have no well developed languages of the same time period. There is going to be one other proto-lang they have contac...

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Torco wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:28 pmalso, sorry if the glosses suck, I'm p rusty

Your glosses are unnecessarily long. Wikipedia has a good list of glossing abbreviations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... reviations

Qwynegold

I came up with one example in Japanese. Pinch has been borrowed in as pinchi, with the meaning of "a difficult situation".

Qwynegold

So Haleza Grise wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 10:49 pmBut mostly I get tempted to scrap everything and start over. So I don't have much to show for all the time!

Ah, it seems like a lot of conlangers have that problem. You need to stop doing that!

Qwynegold

Would you have tried making the same otherwise?

The pieces didn't fit that well together though, because they swelled so much in the oven. I made 1-2 spares for every kind of piece though, so I just had to make the best of what I had.

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