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- Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Paradigm-arrhea
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19424
Re: Paradigm-arrhea
Have a Saimiar noun declension paradigm. I'll go with sristula , an -a/i declension class noun meaning "petty chieftan, warlord" Absolutive: stristul-a Ergative: sristul-ad Adpositional: sristul-is Allative: so-sristul-i Locative: sristul-iath Ellative: tlê-sristul-i Instrumental: sristul-iar Relati...
- Sun Aug 13, 2017 6:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Languages with optional person indexing on verbs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2564
Languages with optional person indexing on verbs
Is anyone aware of any literature on languages that have non-obligatory person marking on verbs? By this I mean languages where you can use some kind of morphology to index an argument of the verb, but that is not required if an overt pronoun exists in the clause?
- Thu May 19, 2016 9:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: noun adjective order cross-linguistically
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5314
noun adjective order cross-linguistically
In English, the normal syntactic pattern is for adjectives to come before the noun they modify: "green dog", "loud motorcycle", etc. occasionally English *does* allow noun-adjective word order, but it is very marked, and mostly restricted to poetic or legal usage: "punishment divine", "the light fan...
- Sun Jan 05, 2014 2:13 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Mutant Spanish (Efañó)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7729
Re: Mutant Spanish [Efa"JO]
Quite neat, Kode! I'm curious what happens with the limited set of adjectives in Spanish that can fall between the article and the noun, like la buena fortuna - does the lenition happen on the adjective, leaving the noun unchanged? Does this syntactic construction even survive? Also, what happens wi...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:47 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Questions about habitable zones, star luminosity, etc.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1287
Questions about habitable zones, star luminosity, etc.
In the interest of finally pinning down the exact orbital parameters of Arzhanø's orbit around its sun, and thus the length of its year, I want to calculate the distance from the sun that the planet would have to be to be roughly Earth-like. I've always imagined that Arzhanø's sun is a little bit co...
- Wed May 22, 2013 1:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114320
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:38 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Endangered languages on Almea
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5076
Re: Endangered languages on Almea
Cuezi is dead too! (as a native language anyway, and unlike Latin and Ancient Greek it seems to have left no descendants)
- Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:15 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sumimasen
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9924
Re: Sumimasen
I've never to my knowledge heard "skosh" used as an English word, and I don't think I would've connected it to 少し if I had.
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
- Replies: 197
- Views: 46321
Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Heh, そうじゃない? けど、アメリカでそんな異世界の人はみんな英語が話せる!おはなしの中の異世界はどこだって日本語が通じる。でも、それって小説のご都合主義じゃない?
I wonder why you're calling it the book of Xion in English. Xion isn't the traditional way of romanizing 紫苑.
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Against Peace and Freedom out soon!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 39579
Re: Against Peace and Freedom out soon!
Out of curiosity, do you make more money off of the kindle version or the paperback one? I was going to buy the paperback copy of the book, but I intend to obtain a kindle shortly. On the other hand I don't think I'd mind owning a physical copy of APAF. Anyway, I am really looking forward to Babbler...
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: program vs. program/programme
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3873
Re: program vs. program/programme
I pronounce them identically, as /pɹoʊɡɹæm/. Further I think that spelling it "programme" is a frightfully British thing to do and I wouldn't do it myself unless I was trying to pass myself off as frightfully British.
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
- Replies: 285
- Views: 37666
Re: Words you love because of their sounds
I'm rather fond of German Ewigkeit, "eternity".
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Interesting things you've done/seen done in a Romlang...
- Replies: 62
- Views: 27230
Re: Interesting things you've done/seen done in a Romlang...
I've never created a Romlang per se because vulgar latin bores me. I did toy with creating a descendant of Classical Latin (i.e. keeping the case system), whose main feature was the development of lexical tone. For instance the nasalization of the accusative -m became low tone and that eventually go...
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:41 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Con-mathematical systems
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27337
Re: Math in Conworlds
Kingdom of Magic-Era Saimi use polish notation for basic arithmatic (instead of, say, 4+5 you'd write + 4 5, essentially). This comes naturally from the Saimiar language, where you'd say i trêsec xoike soi xil , "IMP add four and five" or i karøpec xil ŋês , IMP-empty-CAUS five one-PREP, "lessen fiv...
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Writing English in Hanzi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4013
Re: Writing English in Hanzi
Onyomi/Kunyomi There is also the problem that the same character can have multiple readings depending on the etymology of the word. For example, the word "succeed" (used above) derives from Latin, and is written with the characters 下譲, which alone would be read "under" and "yield" (the Native readi...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41660
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Elviš is a rather an isolating conlang of mine. I'm actually aiming for something akin to the morphological complexity of English. Is this name meant to sound just like Elvish , and if yes, why? /ɛlvɪʂ/ just seemed like the "right" name for my somewhat-west-african-influenced tonal largely isolatin...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:58 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
- Replies: 197
- Views: 46321
Re: Arka: an a priori conlang with 14,000 words from Japan
Oh, man, I completely forgot about this thread and that long text that I was going to translate, didn't I? For, uh, half a year. Sumimasen. 月が泉に映る街アシェルフィ かつてここに悪魔を封印した少女がいた 少女は神々の力を以て世界を救った それはこの世界の物語のひとつ "A town where the moon is reflected in the fountain - Asherufi. There once was a girl here, who...
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:36 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41660
Re: In search of isolating conlangs
Elviš is a rather an isolating conlang of mine. I'm actually aiming for something akin to the morphological complexity of English.
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Some greek alphabet questions
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6789
Some greek alphabet questions
First off, why are there separate letters for /ks/ and /ps/, and for no other clusters? What privileges those two? Secondly, how do you write ν and υ such that they are easily disambiguable? Even with a computer font those two letters look really similar, and I'm not sure how you'd consistently writ...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:55 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Word order in ergative languages
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5477
Re: Word order in ergative languages
Georgian is split-ergative by tense (certain past tense forms trigger ergative alignment, and there's also an odd thing going on with other past/irrealis verb forms where basically the nominative and accusative cases switch), and SVO is definitely a permissible order. Georgian in general has pragmat...
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:40 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: What's the tallest Almean mountain?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7182
What's the tallest Almean mountain?
The Almean Everest. Is it anywhere that Verdurians would know about? If not, what is the absolute highest mountain that a verdurian could persumably have access to. While on the subject of mountains, Almean humans are obviously not as physiologically capable of climbing mountains as Earth humans are...
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:58 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Kiel ab Diďnirum: Elnoresa Almeisë
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4020
Re: Kiel ab Diďnirum: Elnoresa Almeisë
Go back to -22,000 Z.E. and convince the Ilii that it was their duty to recivilize the human and elcari remnants in the wake of the ilii-ktuvok wars.
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Invent an Idiom
- Replies: 362
- Views: 80912
Re: Invent an Idiom
rémenih ma tlecuáqan yáumatl ná Lizards bite him in his sleep. Next: to walk with a limp. You know, I'm going to be daring and different; instead of creating a particular idiom for this, I'm going to make it a fully independent root. śkalo , "to limp, walk with a limp, be crippled". From the root ś...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: PIE feminine agreement genesis
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3404
Re: PIE feminine agreement genesis
Some ancient Greek adjectives use the masculine form for feminine nouns, suggesting that the analogy might not have happened in PIE but rather happened independently in the various daughter languages, and that it was not yet complete even as recently as 500 BC in Athens. That's interesting, I didn'...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:30 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: New Ktuvok picture in the Almeopedia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4868
Re: New Ktuvok picture in the Almeopedia
You know, I would really be interested to read about the personal experiences of a Cadhinorian or Carhinnoi doing the actual ground work of the occupation of Munkhash during Cadhinas's golden age. I'd like to know how Ktuvoki acted when they were at their weakest, and what kind of society would be b...