Zompist Bboard Again

relational nouns rather than adpositions It should be the other way around. All my (unfinished) conlangs use relational nouns because I spend my time polishing verb conjugation than deciding what adposition to use. not really using pronouns This is not possible, unless: You mean that your language ...

I was making a language, but it has a large number of case. What can be a motivation for applicative voice? In Indonesian language, it is for topicalization and relativization, like: Kucing=nya sudah di-beri-kan. Cat=3 PRF UV-give-APL The cat has been given. However, for a language with case markin...

- Infinitives had the form CVVCVC, for example teozik "to have", pronounced /so.zaik/ (don't ask). - The present tense was formed with the personal pronoun followed by some or all of the letters (not phonemes; I didn't have a full linguistic education at that age) of the infinitive taken ...

... and you may say to yourself, "My God! What have I done!" I think Sal's saying that it's not possible to have objective standards for judging conlangs. Well, if I may put my head on the chopping-block and let it be kicked around for a bit, as it were: here's what I remember of the verb...

... and you may say to yourself, "My God! What have I done!" I think Sal's saying that it's not possible to have objective standards for judging conlangs. Well, if I may put my head on the chopping-block and let it be kicked around for a bit, as it were: here's what I remember of the verb...

I was making a language, but it has a large number of case. What can be a motivation for applicative voice? In Indonesian language, it is for topicalization and relativization, like: Kucing=nya sudah di-beri-kan. Cat=3 PRF UV-give-APL The cat has been given. However, for a language with case marking...

Be prepared that a lot of grammatical features affect usage of other grammatical features. For example: if your language have a hard time relativizing obliques, there will be a lot of valence modifying suffix.

Lahu Shi /p pʰ b t tʰ d ʧ ʧʰ ʤ k kʰ ɡ/ <p ph b t th d c ch j k kh g> /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /f v s j h ɣ/ <f v s y h r> /l/ <l> /i ɛ æ a ʌ ɔ o u/ + nasalization <i e ae aa a ao o ʌ> + <n> /a˧ a˥ a˩ a˦˨ a˧˥ a˥ʔ a˧ʔ/ <a á à â ǎ á' a' (Put in the first letter in last vowel phoneme. If there are hiatus and th...

No, I'm not talking about English "him." But I cancelled the question because I found another way to derive a relative pronoun. (When a relativizer fuses with the pronoun)

pf and bv

What is this pronoun called? Usages He is a doctor that you meet him at the town. I said that I 'll go. I watch him so that he will not escape. This looks like a combination of relative pronoun (but not fronted), logophoric pronoun, and reflexive pronoun. The pronoun refers to the focus of the sente...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:59 pm

Akangka wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:56 pm What if ejective occurs as allophone

I think this is limited to English (and maybe Danish?) dialects.

I mean, does it count as violating?

Also the only European language with word final -h is Finnic. (Maybe Saamic?) Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic (not generally regarded as SAE, I know) allow word final /h/, written <th>. Also there are cases of final [h] developing elsewhere in Europe, including in some dialects of Spanish (allophone...

Also the only European language with word final -h is Finnic. (Maybe Saamic?)

What if ejective occurs as allophone

By "Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar," do glottal stop counts as phoneme that violates that?

As to the non-intimate pronouns, Akangka makes the point that in languages with multiple levels of politeness, it is more likely that second person pronouns will actually be titles. This is exactly what is going on here, with the addition that for men the "non-intimate lower-status interlocuto...

You should publish it on your own scratchpad. Also, sorry if it seems too harsh, but what is the uniqueness of your conlang? Okay, that’s fair. The purpose of this conlang is to create something like Láadan, to focus the grammar and lexical stock on women and femaleness as Láadan does, while simult...

ignore current conditions. Their evolution should match their environment from before contact with humans or the invention of farming. Okay. So we need another environment. 1. Orc came from someplace where leathery skin is considered an advantage. (Probably because of combination of temperature and...

The Tehemne are early agriculturalists who subsist largely on a grain similar to maize, supplemented with copious hunting and gathering. This story is used to explain the questions of "why do we eat so much grain?" and "why do we wear clothing?". The grain, they say, is because ...