Zompist Bboard Again

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 12:56 am It seems like they figured when doing non-STEM, the first thing you have to do is turn your brain off, because if you had a working brain, you'd be good enough for STEM.

To be fair, it sometimes feels like this is true of much of linguistics. Cue my favourite quote:

Stephen R. Anderson wrote: Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another's shoulders instead of on one another's toes.

Open access grammar of Guarani:

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/ ... cts/138755

chris_notts wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:12 am Open access grammar of Guarani:

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/ ... cts/138755

When I saw your post I got excited, but this is just Estigarribia’s, which I already know about… and, I mean, it’s fine enough as a grammar, but these kinds of ‘grammars accessible to non-linguists’ always seem to sacrifice some detail in favour of trying to explain what all the terms mean. (And I feel it never quite works out, because trying to cater to linguists means the explanations are a bit too rushed.)

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:17 am When I saw your post I got excited, but this is just Estigarribia’s, which I already know about… and, I mean, it’s fine enough as a grammar, but these kinds of ‘grammars accessible to non-linguists’ always seem to sacrifice some detail in favour of trying to explain what all the terms mean. (And I feel it never quite works out, because trying to cater to linguists means the explanations are a bit too rushed.)

Sorry to disappoint! I hadn't seen it before, or if I had then I'd forgotten.

chris_notts wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:51 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:17 am When I saw your post I got excited, but this is just Estigarribia’s, which I already know about… and, I mean, it’s fine enough as a grammar, but these kinds of ‘grammars accessible to non-linguists’ always seem to sacrifice some detail in favour of trying to explain what all the terms mean. (And I feel it never quite works out, because trying to cater to linguists means the explanations are a bit too rushed.)

Sorry to disappoint! I hadn't seen it before, or if I had then I'd forgotten.

No worries, it’s just that I’ve been looking for a good Guaraní grammar for some time. (And this is a good Guaraní grammar, to be clear; it just has its limitations).

The Pile has been deleted from Mega. Does anyone know if it's moved or is it gone?

Jonlang wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 3:29 pm The Pile has been deleted from Mega. Does anyone know if it's moved or is it gone?

It was removed because it violated copyrights, I guess.

mega enforcing copyright? alas, the good old days are gone.

Well, the Internet is not a "no-man's land" where laws do not apply. Copyright violation is as illegal "there" as in "the real world". Get used to it.

It is, but a Redditor pointed me to a Google Drive account with it. Not sure if posting the link here is allowed though.

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:53 am Well, the Internet is not a "no-man's land" where laws do not apply. Copyright violation is as illegal "there" as in "the real world". Get used to it.

it still kind of is, tho, if you know where to look. I'm just sad to see mega leave the ranks of the forces of freedom. [insert braveheart still].

Supporting the current global copyright regime in order to fund creators is like supporting global warming to help seniors stay warm in their homes. It's like, this is a very inefficient way to be nice to people. Could we maybe just fund the arts instead?

(whisper, whisper) BTW, Torco, you can access z-library using onion browser and basically rob people blind (whisper whisper)

Any good resources on proto japonic with pitch accent?

Apparently open-access grammar of Dzongkha (van Driem 1992): https://www.himalayanlanguages.org/file ... ongkha.pdf. Doesn’t look too bad.

I believe Dewrad, some years ago, posted a link to a Gaulish grammar. (It might have been his own work. I don't remember very well). It was either a Word or Google Docs file.
Does anyone remember it?

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 12:13 pm I believe Dewrad, some years ago, posted a link to a Gaulish grammar. (It might have been his own work. I don't remember very well). It was either a Word or Google Docs file.
Does anyone remember it?

Yes, it was his own work, and I happened to save that stuff.

Grammar (seems to be from 2012):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ry82lgqtb6a99r/Dewrad.%20Gallo-Brittonic%20Grammar%20Unfinished%20Draft%2049p.pdf?dl=1

Lexicon (seems to be from 2011):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7v2v9iy4qgkhep/Dewrad.%20Gallo-Brittonic-Lexicon%2025p.pdf?dl=1

You may also want to look up "langue gauloise" on libgen - there's a dictionary and a monograph description in there, in French.

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 12:43 pm

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 12:13 pm I believe Dewrad, some years ago, posted a link to a Gaulish grammar. (It might have been his own work. I don't remember very well). It was either a Word or Google Docs file.
Does anyone remember it?

Yes, it was his own work, and I happened to save that stuff.

Grammar (seems to be from 2012):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ry82lgqtb6a99r/Dewrad.%20Gallo-Brittonic%20Grammar%20Unfinished%20Draft%2049p.pdf?dl=1

Lexicon (seems to be from 2011):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7v2v9iy4qgkhep/Dewrad.%20Gallo-Brittonic-Lexicon%2025p.pdf?dl=1

You may also want to look up "langue gauloise" on libgen - there's a dictionary and a monograph description in there, in French.

Ah, that's great. Thanks a lot!

https://seveleu.com/pages/semitic-synta ... rative-sem
Interesting list of Hebrew-Arabic cognates, with divergent meanings annotated.

Kuchigakatai wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 5:10 am https://seveleu.com/pages/semitic-synta ... rative-sem
Interesting list of Hebrew-Arabic cognates, with divergent meanings annotated.

Very interesting, thanks! The glossed Torah on that page looks interesting too: https://gloss.ibc.oarc.science/en/

I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi. It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I hope can be of use.