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(1) /sɪ.tɪŋ/? <>lax vowels aren't normally found in open syllables. agreed for me <>Same as (2), a sequence like this would usually give me [/sɪt. tʰ ɪŋ/] or [/sɪʔ. tʰ ɪŋ/] (2) /sɪt.tɪŋ/? No; the medial consonant is definitely not geminated. <>Same as above. (3) /sɪt.ɪŋ/? No; this is definitely not ...

Interesting topics! Do you have some references I can read through? Sure. Recently took [A LOT] of time to [attempt to] straighten out valency, valency adjusting methods including voice Well, a lot of ink and pixels have been spilled/typed on this subject, and I cannot really hope to do better than...

Recently took A LOT of time to finally sit down, straighten out valency, valency adjusting methods including voice, and to some degree semantic roles. Spent a bit of time reading about egophoricty and egophoric marking which is worth looking up if you haven't read about it. Finally, read a bit about...

In German, it is usually called Asphalt , but the technical term - I once worked in a road planning office - is Schwarzdecke , which literally means 'blacktop'. Maybe it is the same in English? asphalt is also called blacktop in English. I know. What I asked about is whether in English, asphalt is ...

<album> as /'(ʔ)æl.bləm/. .... still doesn't sound right to me without two /l/s. Sigh. Kinda remind me of /j/ and /w/ copying across syllables in Avestan. I have a similar thing - "only" becomes "olnly." Oh man.... yeah, I'm doing that too, but no one's pointed it out.

1. What is the origin of the duals in -u in Sanskrit, Lithuanian and Proto-Celtic? The handbooks I know do not reconstruct such duals for PIE. The numeral *Hoḱte-h 3 (u) '8' has a fossilized dual suffix *-h 3 (u) which I guess it's related to the Caucasian numeral '2', although a deeper research wo...

<album> as /'(ʔ)æl.bləm/.

.... still doesn't sound right to me without two /l/s. Sigh.

Kinda remind me of /j/ and /w/ copying across syllables in Avestan.

Zju wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 3:52 pm Are there languages that have phonemic syllable boundaries? I.e. is there a language that distinguishes between /'uf.ljuf/ and /'u.fljuf/?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affricate ... _sequences

... I should warn you that you will quite probably find these books disappointing, especially concerning the verbs. Verbs in Kartvelian work quite similarly as in PIE: each of the three screeve series ("present", "aorist", "perfect") uses a different stem, and there ar...

So, my Google-fu is not helping me out today. Are there any basic grammar sketches of Old Georgia and/or Proto-Kartvelian? Basically looking for declension, screeve, etc. tables.

Think there are some in Georgian and/or Russian, but I'm hoping to find something in English, German, or (maybe) French.

You could probably also add

Lexicon: borrowing basic/core vocabulary for neighboring trade language/lingua francas (e.g., pronouns).

... [tl;dr] forgive me, I am not trying to take over the misc forum, but typed out some research for myself and felt like it was hopefully worth sharing. No, it's the link in the last two words of the banner's text! Oh gotcha ... I had read that, but thought I was missing something given that those ...

The Wiktionary definition is buried in the banner notice Ah, I see. There was an attempt to modify the Wikipedia article to include their definition, and there is now disagreement on whether it is good enough to say 'inherited from Sanskrit' without lying, even if one must hold one's nose. If one i...

The problem I am wrestling with is that a lot of Pali entries on the English Wiktionary say 'From Sanskrit...' or 'Inherited from Sanskrit'. The word 'Sanskrit' is an automatically generated link to the wikipedia page, and we don't have an easy way of changing that link. Wiktionary has redefined th...

Does Pali descend from Sanskrit? In particular, is it legitimate to say of most Pali words that they are inherited from Sanskrit? This is chiefly a question about what the term 'Sanskrit' includes and excludes in plain English. From most of my research: no. Pali and most other modern Indo-Aryan lan...

Probably need something like /ʔ/ /ɬ, ç, x, χ, ħ, h/(with voiced ingressive and voiceless eggressive variants; eggressives might also contrast aspiration; the velar and uvulars might contrast fricatives versus affricates) /ʀ̥, ʜ, a/ (voicing contrast as above; probably all ~vocoids can take breathine...

/*monT/ > Rich-mond, Ver-mont, mont-pelier, mont-ana, mont-gomery .... probably researchers can guess something with hills/mountains with the exception of Montgomery. Richmond seems to be a bit of an outlier but it's one of the fewer items in final place. /*con/ > con-cord, con-necticut, Wis-con-sin...

What the hell is this sound? For the life of me I can't figure it out. At the very least it's voiceless and lateral. I'm fairly confident that it's velar as well, and perhaps the ejective velar lateral fricative? It seems to have a lot of articulatory force behind it. And, most strangely, I can dis...

At the same time, it bothers me that people, at least in conlanging land, seem to insist on considering these things actual verbs or nouns rather than words that are in more than one word class, one of them being adpositions. Not quite sure I am getting your quip. I get it that entries can appear i...

I seem to remember reading a while ago about a language (Mesoamerican, I think) with exactly two adpositions. I’ve been trying to find it again, but to no avail. Does anyone have any idea which language that could be? Not sure about in Mesoarmerica, but I recall Tok Pisin is claimed to only have tw...