Zompist Bboard Again

Yes, and there are some lexical differences between the audio and the subtitle, as you might have noticed.

Try listening to "upin&ipin" (e.g. here) vs. the Indonesian dub of Doraemon (e.g. here). I did not do any measurements, but impressionistically there is a stronger prasal stress and more utterance final rising in the former than the latter.

I can only speak for the Indonesian side here. Standard Indonesian (SI) is similar enough to Standard Malay to allow Indonesians to read Malay texts (apart from a few false friends that cause a lot of laughter). The well-known children cartoon 'Upin dan ipin' which uses some kind of standardized col...

Not really sure if there is a clear natlang precedent, but an applicative could also add an experiencer. "It blues me" would mean something like "It looks blue to me" or "I see it being blue."

You should have a look at Bantu tone languages. All have H (and L), a lot have additional HL and some allow LH. Alternatively, you could look at West African tone languages in general.

And Medieval Korean lost vowel harmony! Man, those Europeans really got around. You're being ironic, but Richard W's post is unironic and serious... You're all ignoring the null hypothesis, or "pulling a Taskubilos." There are three ways that a non-European language exposed to European la...

And Medieval Korean lost vowel harmony! Man, those Europeans really got around. You're being ironic, but Richard W's post is unironic and serious... Also serious is Arabic gaining a high use of a preposition meaning "by X" with passive verbs (من قبل min qabli X, literally "from befor...

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At any rate, I’ve heard that at least Standard Indonesian is very heavily influenced by IE (especially Germanic) languages, but I’m not sure to what extent that’s true for Papua Indonesian. Do you have a source for that? I'm now doing advanced lessons of Bahasa Indonesia, and while there are lots o...

Simbri.

The Mee examples are much less clear than what I remembered. Page 64 for example shows a complex verbal construction (with strange glossing). It's not really clear if it involves auxiliary stacking. woo kei tai epi continue make do know Auxiliary verbs are described in section 8.1.2 starting on p. 7...

I recall that Mee has a do-support-like construction with tai which can be combined with other verbs. Of course you could debate the status as an auxillary, but I will probably find time to look at some examples tomorrow.

Papua Indonesian stacks at least two auxilliaries: Sa mo dapat pukul. I FUT PASS beat I will get beaten up. Maybe you can do more than that, idk. mo also means want and dapat also means get . But isn’t Papua Indonesia a creole? At any rate, I’ve heard that at least Standard Indonesian is very heavi...

Papua Indonesian stacks at least two auxilliaries:

Sa mo dapat pukul.
I FUT PASS beat
I will get beaten up.

Maybe you can do more than that, idk. mo also means want and dapat also means get. Just out of curiousity: which languages don't allow any stacking here?

What exactly do you mean by having the same phonotactics?

If you are looking for closely related languages in contact you could look at Nguni languages in more detail.

Also, for me as a German, spoken Icelandic is gibberish.

Might be difficult because some areas where Bantu languages are spoken exhibit varying degrees of multilingualism.

Personally, I guess I'm fine with calling Das Auto von Mama a type of genitive, but I'd draw the line at using that term for Die Mama ihr Auto , since that's a dative construction, even though it fulfils the function of the genitive. I'd kind of wonder what else you'd call Das Auto von Mama , if no...

Usage is not uniform: Here is a random example from the Internet: "Nomen und Eigennamen ohne Artikel bilden den Genitiv mit von."

Coming back to the German genitive case: I think there is some terminological vagueness involved. The genitive case proper in German is part of the case paradigm and does not involve any analytic construction. Some people only use genitive to refer to this construction, e.g. das Haus der Mutter . So...