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All other parameters being the same, is it attested to unambiguously contrast the perfective and imperfective aspects and have a three-way tense contrast among past, present, and future in the imperfective aspect but only a two-way contrast between one of past/nonpast or future/nonfuture in the per...

Nu horran wollas niplun pedít, horran tummus nefera pedít, toman wollas saulun pedít. PRTC grass-SG.ACC want-PARTC.PRES.ACTV.M.SG.NOM rain-SG.ACC desire-3SG.PRES.ACT, grass-SG.ACC cut-PARTC.PRES.ACTV.M.SG.NOM cloud-PL.ACC desire-3SG.PRES.ACT, hay-SG.ACC want-PARTC.PRES.ACTV.M.SG.NOM sun-SG:ACC desi...

What language are the colour terms in?

Tell me, where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him. - Celeborn, The Fellowship of the Ring Fá mai pér is su Gandalfus, wit sam immu flóditen pil fedí - Celebornus, Uf toyé crachar cumpuntié libré say-2SG.PRES.IPV 1SG-DAT where be-3SG.PRES.ACT.CLIT ART-M.SG.NOM Gandalf-NOM, for with 3SG....

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[Oh shit. I never thought about it this way, but you make a really good case for what you're saying. If only anyone had a good idea for how to solve this problem... If it was easy everyone would know how to do it. But we can approach this from a jaded cynical perspective, or a more hopeful one. One...

@raphael @W.E: I don't want to be the old guy who tells how stuff was better in their youth, but it is possible to organize a better rail service in Germany, because we had a good one 40 years ago. I used trains much more than nowadays, but had less of the kind of mayor delays than I experience now,...

Hm, OK, H-W, I think I've got a counterexample: the relatively stronger position of the AfD in East Germany, which, I think, has less of a solid middle class, than in West Germany. I'm not saying "More Middle Class = More fascists" - I'm saying that a) starting from a certain size and sha...

Honestly, people seem to just like fascism very much. This. Wherever you have a Middle Class with a stake in the system, people are generally more willing to support those who promise them to protect their status from whatever outsider*) threat they see - whether real or imaginary, i.e., supporting...

What I find strange is how eclipsed earlier music seems to be. E.g. I just looked up Frank Sinatra's best album— some at least think it's In The Wee Small Hours , which came out in 1955, just 12 years before Sgt. Pepper . (I dunno, maybe you're all jazz fanatics. But I feel like there's a huge gulf...

Courtesy of News Channel 5, WEWS: 'What a tragedy for Cleveland': Firefighters battle historic Tremont church fire Is the church itself historic or is this a blaze of hitherto unforeseen intensity? (Or are we talking about the vintage section of Tremont?) And is it a tragedy that the firefighters a...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 1:40 pm This lools so cool

Seconded.

The original 2nd sg. ending was - s , descended from WGmc - t , which is still reflected in, say, Dutch. No, /s/ goes back all the way to PIE; /t/ is the 2nd sg. only, historically, in the forms descending from the PIE perfect (past tense and praeteritopraesentia like the modal verbs). The Dutch /t...

The usual explanation is that it's a fully phonological process where a final -s on one word in a clause like *wĺ̥kʷoms péḱyonti "they are looking at the wolves" bleeds over to the start of the following word ( *wĺ̥kʷoms spéḱyonti ). It may also have happened the other way round in some c...

Does it read to you that way because of the aggressive language the author takes recourse to? Yes, precisely. AMR is an acquired taste - I've read several of his papers over the last couple of years, and he often makes good arguments. You just need to read past those "everyone is out there to ...

I was thinking of those with further(?) derivation via -skij , though now I'm looking for examples I can't find much. You mean names like Berezovskij, Dzerzhinskij , etc.? Those are quite frequent, although some of them are actually of Belarussian or Polish origin (like Dzerzhinskij ). But even thi...

Russian has a morphological formation peculiar to names, the personal adjective. You mean the possessive adjectives in -ov and -in ? Those can also be formed from proper nouns, even though that's less frequent (in my experience, -ov is not very productive nowadays anyway, and -in is also rarer than...

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. For participles, the subject or a participle construction is in whatever case is required by its role in the clause the construction is embedded in; t...

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 12:23 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 11:25 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 6:12 am Non-finite forms: unsure

What are you unsure about here?

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?

[*] After prepositions : either the accusative or the ablative is licensed by the preposition, but never the nominative. There are also prepositions requiring the genitive and dative, just for completeness - this doesn't affect the point you want to make. [*] Topicalisation : not sure, but word ord...