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Hello Everyone! I'm looking for a list of Salish regular correspondences (e.g. from Kuipers' Salish Etymological Dictionary (2002), which I don't have :cry:). Similar lists from the other so-called "Almosan" language families will be welcome, too, especially Wakashan (North Wakashan, at least, anoth...

I'm afraid that even in the professional scholarly community, even among world-level universities, insufficient work has been done to give you what you're asking for. No such sound change list exists, for any of the protolanguages above. The best that can be had anywhere is, at most, a list of corr...

IMHO, this concerns the tension between efficiency and redundancy. As for Czech (as well as other languages), there's a gender+number+case agreement in whole clauses or phrases: Vide^l jsem hezkou mladou holku I saw a nice+{ fem.acc.sg. } young+{ fem.acc.sg. } girl+{ fem.acc.sg. } The redundancy/eff...

As has already been mentioned, this is common in most (all?) Slavic languages Yes, of course. I only reacted to Seiphel's claim that Polish is more weird (More than what? More than Czech? By no means.) As this is quite common in Slavic, I wonder what other languages or language groups have this fea...

Polish is more weird; we've got sometimes triple negation or quadruple etc. Dear Seiphel, if you read my post carefully, you'd see that my example was a negation as "quintuple" as yours: Nikdy (1) nikdo (2) nikde (3) nevide^l (4) z^a'dne'ho (5) mimozems^t'ana (Literally Never (1) nobody (2) nowhere...

I'm afraid that even in the professional scholarly community, even among world-level universities, insufficient work has been done to give you what you're asking for. No such sound change list exists, for any of the protolanguages above. The best that can be had anywhere is, at most, a list of corr...

Hello everyone! Coold thread! May I have a request? I'm looking for the sound changes from Proto-Athapascan to the individual Athapascan languages and dialects. Also, Proto-Athapascan-Eyak to Proto-Athapascan and Proto-Eyak would be great to have. And if somebody had Proto-Athapascan-Eyak-Tlingit to...

Many IE and non-IE languages use some kind of "double negation", i.e. their speakers repeat the negative particle before or after another negative word (a pronoun, an adverb, an adjective etc.). "Double negation" languages in Europe include: 1) All Balto-Slavonic languages That's right. We can even...

I think it'dbe more useful if you stated which one you're looking for. If you looked at the subject of the post, you'd know that :wink: , but I admit I should have repeated it in the message, thus: Athabascan + Eyak + Tlingit I'm interested in sound and morphological correspondences. I also wonder ...

Hello, I'm desperately looking for the correspondences. Could anyone help me, please? Thanks in advance.

Petusek

P.S.: We could make a separate web site to present and collect all those developements. What do you think about it?