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Ладно, я уже нашёл и скачал эту книгу , надеюсь, что мне удастся ее прочитать к концу следующего года. (If you don't mind my corrections) (Also, by the end of next year? Man, you sure schedule reading a long ways out...) [EDIT: Well, on second thought, using "будущий" isn't wrong, though "следующий...

house vs houses is probably because the 's' is voiced in the second word, and Canadian raising doesnt normally occur before /z/ or any other voiced sound. Yes, so I assumed; the fact that I then maintain a difference between "houses" the noun and "houses" the verb strongly suggests it's becoming ph...

Russian has a total of six vowelless, one-consonant words: /s/ = "with, off of" /k/ = "to, towards" /v/ = "in, into" /b/ = subjunctive/conditional mood particle (~"would") /Z/ = emphatic particle /l_j/ = interrogative particle They're usually just pronounced slurred into the neighboring words, thoug...

I thought - read somewhere I believe - that *šьdlъ was related to *xoditi (though I don't grasp the ablaut going on here fully, ь?), which seems unrelated to *jьti at the PIE level. Yes, that is the general consensus. And what's wrong with the ablaut? You see ь~o elsewhere in Slavic as well (cf. *b...

For instance, IMD: I have raising before voiced /d/ in a few monomorphemic instances: "tiger" ['təɪ.gr] "spider" ['spəɪ.dr] "hydro-" ['həi.droʊ] don't have; have ; have Well, that at least shows you're inconsistent as well. Not as much as I am, but definitely still inconsistent. (Unless it has some...

The "classical" definition of Canadian Raising is that /aɪ/ becomes /əɪ/ before unvoiced consonants (and in some dialects, /aʊ/ > /əʊ/ as well). But the more I've thought about this, the more I've realized that my own dialect, as well as anecdotally many others, have a lot of examples that don't fol...

Yeah, I realize I didn't quite explain that as well as I could (and frankly I'm still not entirely sure how to best do it). I'm not looking for incorporation, but was using "absorption" (a term I actually have seen elsewhere) to refer to how a participle or another part of speech essentially subsume...

Do they exist? Here's what I mean. "Normal" participles, in every language I know of, are subject-absorbing, in that they stand in for a relative clause by replacing the subject and then taking other verbal arguments as normal. For instance, active participles replace the subject of the relative cla...

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Yeah, it is Polish (spoken in the typically "eastern"/East Slavic influenced way), I was wondering if anybody realized that. After that it becomes harder for me... At 7:50 or the like its Polish again, right? Or at least it sounds a lot like it. JAL Yeah, I think so. At least, there my comprehensio...

The hand in the corner is an orthodox church symbol (I have absolutely no i dea what it actually means but I've seen it a lot, TBH) and it has four Gothic symbols around the fingers.. ÏJCJ. This is a reminder of the country's gothic history. The letters are the emporer's initials. The sign of the c...

Piotr wrote:I find the Belarusian until 0:45 particularly intelligible...

Is it Belorussian or Polish? I just ask because I find everything up until 0:45 difficult, but everything after becomes much, much easier.

It has a lot of breadth but not a lot of depth - there is an example sentance of most kinds of morphology, but only one of each. I'll take a look. I need as many examples of verbs with multiple inflections as possible. Basically I'm trying to confirm or disconfirm claims about the universal orderin...

Do Russians understand Belorussian? I understand the former but not a word of the latter. And how does Belorussian fare compared with other Russian dialects in regards to Standard Russian? In my experience at least, Belorussian is much closer to standard Ukrainian than standard Russian. With writte...

My Russian teacher could read Ukrainian but not Belorussian. The form of Russian she has been taught is basically St Peterburg Russian. It's more than just politics. Eh, a large part of that is because Belorussian's orthography is so wacky (compared to Russian's and Ukrainian's, which follow the et...

Wellllllllllll, if you're going to behave like a cockroach, we're gonna have to treat you like one too. STOMP STOMP STOMP **gets out can of Woolite foaming cleaner** FWOOSSHHHHHHSSSFFPPFPPTPT Yer dead mister. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_81Zb0GoqUvk/SKRzPoLOc-I/AAAAAAAAAUU/xolQLFuMx0Y/s400/DeadCockroa...

Long vowels may also develop allophonically in open syllables but not in closed ones. If geminate consonants occur then reduction of phonemic length in consonants can lead to phonemic vowel length, e.g. /makkar/>[makkar]>/makar/ vs. /makar/>[ma:kar]>/ma:kar/. Or, alternatively, the exact opposite. ...

Wow.... I can't believe this thread still exists. And it looks like I was one stubborn bone-headed kid. :? That's what I hate about the L&L Museum. In the other forums (except Almea iirc) your youthful stupidity is pruned eventually. Here, it's saved for all eternity. I would be more than willing t...

But "hit-" is one example of a two-consonant prefix, right? At present, yes, but not originally. The prefix was originally just t- , to which many languages then added an epenthetic i- , resulting in it- . Since neither Arabic nor Hebrew allowed vowels at the beginning of a word (or at least their ...

Sorry if this is way off, but what about qiryat as in Qiryat Shmona etc.? Is that an Aramaic loan or does it belong to a different root? Hmm. Good point. In modern Hebrew קריה qiryah /kirya/ means "campus" ( qiryat being its construct form). I didn't know this word before. The sense in Qiryat Shmon...

My apologies for any inaccuracies or mistakes I've made in the descriptions of languages I'm less familiar with. My familiarity with Semitic and Afro-Asiatic outside of Hebrew is relatively limited, and I hope I was clear in saying so. What I was talking about with regards to Berber is drawing on me...

Sorry for the delay. * In these languages, are vowels earlier than the first consonant of the root, ordinarily consider part of the prefix instead of part of the root? * In these languages, are vowels later than the last consonant of the root, ordinarily consider part of the suffix instead of part o...

Oh, I forgot to mention that there are, however, dissimilatory processes in the vowels in prefixes. For example, Barth's Law (which applies to a number of west Semitic languages) states that the vowel in the personal prefixes of the imperfective should be as far away from the vowel inside the stem (...

I may be wrong about other Afro-Asiatic languages, but generally Semitic is considered to be the closest to having a system where a root can be analyzed as only three consonants and where conjugation is performed by modifying the vowels between them; it isn't technically quite at this point, but it'...

Maybe the word for "diabetes insipidus" comes from the word for "flood", but the word for "diabetes mellitus" comes from the word for "sugar"? Nah, it's the same word, and it's pretty transparently derived from "sugar". Diabetes insipidus is apparently known as סוכרת תפלה sukeret tfelah , literally...