Yalensky wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:19 am
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Old Greedian: yos'sẹ /ˈjos↓se/
yos (v): see, look at, watch
sẹ (pn): nothing, nobody
Such compounds with a verb and its prime argument (semantically patient) are signaled with a stress shift to the verbal root (orthographically, the apostrophe).
What happens here is that the intervocalic glottal disappears, leaving a hiatus which is then resolved by the insertion of epenthetic [ɾ]. Is that more believable thus said?
F and I1 have the same indice pair d- / b-. Does that mean that they can never be distinguished through agreement, or does the opposition human/inanimate come into play otherwise e.g. different verb uses?
Would it be realistic to have a polypersonal agreement system where the same affixes are used for both agent and patient? If so, how would you know whether it is nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive, since it's impossible to know whether an intransitive verb is agreeing with its experiencer...
So perhaps there could be a completely different approach? What about intentionally designing a language to be equally difficult for everyone to learn? Such a language would, for all its flaws, at least have the advantage of putting potential learners around the world on an equal footing. That soun...
Yes, I'm also on Tumblr: http://vilikemorgenthal.tumblr.com/.
This year with Ubaghuns Tëhe, a neolithic language that I created in class out of boredom.
That reminds me also: does any language have two orthogonal class systems? So e.g. maybe with one slot for shape markers (flat/tall/round/etc.) and another unrelated one for size markers (big/medium/small) or animateness or color or what have you. Michif nominals (mostly of French origin) have two ...
Make velar segments to /j/, (bi-labial segments to /w/: instant diphthongs. You could also do /C$/ > /ʔ/ > creaky voice on the vowel; and then break it, as in Khmer . Your first ideas look like what my original sound change did, but I ditch it because it wasn't realistic. Velar to /j/ happened at l...
If we imagine an intermediate stage where tone contrasts become phonation contrasts (e.g. low tone to creaky voice), it seems very likely (on to see how various Khmer dialects are doing it). Are there instances of tone contrasts becoming phonation contrasts, rather than the other way around? (Bonus...
High-tone vowels can break, and then you can epenthesize a consonant between the resulting vowels. Is there precedent for interactions between vowel tone and quality? If we imagine an intermediate stage where tone contrasts become phonation contrasts (e.g. low tone to creaky voice), it seems very l...
My immediate complaint was that the chapter on phonology was too quickly done with (6 pages), and above all... in the orthography Drapeau uses , long and short vowels are not distinguished, thus her adding footnotes to clarify the difference between similar-looking affixes, even though writing <âîû>...