Also, if you want a theoretical perspective on a not-trigger but interested voice system from Acehnese, check out Julie Anne Legate's "Voice and v
Lessons from Acehnese"
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- Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: voice/trigger systems in austonesian langs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2431
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Ultimate Proto-Language
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11209
Re: The Ultimate Proto-Language
I have never heard of a vowel system that contrasts ingressive vs. egressive vowels. Does it exist?
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:51 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7804
Re: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.
Good luck with that... so far as I know, these either don't exist or are out of date. Your best bet to be going on with is goatman's excel spreadsheet. If you want to supplement that, try looking at etymological dictionaries of the various families. Is the link to said spreedsheet in this thread so...
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7804
Re: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.
Hopefully Sihler's book should be available at some libraries (university libraries if you have access), but yeah, it costs monies. Also, Kath's link contains a pdf of Sihler's book, so nice! That's sadly true for all Linguistics books. Indo-European Language and Culture by Benjamin Fortson IV is m...
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 5:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Taahu
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8097
Re: Taahu
Can potential also be used in an epistemic way? How is epistemic modality expressed?
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Beginner's Guide to Phonetics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1427
Re: Beginner's Guide to Phonetics
Link is broken for me.
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:57 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10198
Re: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
kuetso- stroll, amble, walk leisurely
mpasu- make do, manage
mpasu- make do, manage
- Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:48 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10198
Re: Kala Lexical Participation Thread
potsu- lay siege to, besiege.
- Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Re: Zebia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1654
Re: Zebia
This looks very neat!
- Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Igbo and other West African languages
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3776
Re: Igbo and other West African languages
You might be able to find some articles in The Journal of West African Linguistics or Studies in African Linguistics.
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 12:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Four questions about the Agentivity Hierarchy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4110
Re: Two questions about the Agentivity Hierarchy
Source?Theta wrote:Some language in Africa has obviative v. proximate second person, I think. But none of the Algonquian languages do.
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question re: anti-passive voice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2751
Re: Question re: anti-passive voice
... but it would probably not be described as such: I was gonna say the same thing. There's at least one language, Flathead Salish, in which the object in the anti-passive construction is marked with the same particle/preposition as the subject in the fully transitive construction. That preposition...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Since the allophones are predictable why not just write <bb dd gg> for all of them? Eliminates the problem.Theta wrote:because both <ngg> and <nng> are aesthetically unpleasant and also Rusanov's thingroninbodhisattva wrote: Wait why isn't /gg/ [ŋ:]?
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:04 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
Wait why isn't /gg/ [ŋ:]?Theta wrote: /b d g/ are ... but are nasals [m n ŋ]
-when geminated (/gg/ is [n:] <nn>)
-before obstruents (syllable finally)
-word finally
-adjacent to each other
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Looking for a Source on Dative Shift
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1521
Re: Looking for a Source on Dative Shift
Are you looking for analyses of dative shift? Corpus studies? You really should be more specific.
- Fri May 30, 2014 3:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Post your conlang's phonology
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 512341
Re: Post your conlang's phonology
I don't really understand why you're doing the orthography the way you are.
- Thu May 29, 2014 1:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polypersonalism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3024
Re: Polypersonalism
in many languages object markers have the distribution of pronouns, for example By this do you mean that they are used, like pronouns, only if an explicit object constituent is not present? Rather like French cliticized object pronouns, for instance? Yes, so they can't occur when there is an explic...
- Thu May 29, 2014 1:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polypersonalism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3024
Re: Polypersonalism
By "polypersonalism" are you referring to languages where multiple arguments in a clause trigger agreement on the predicate? Yes. I thought that was the standard definition of the term. Well, I'm more used to the term "polypersonal agreement" than "polypersonalism", actually I've never seen the lat...
- Thu May 29, 2014 1:14 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Polypersonalism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3024
Re: Polypersonalism
By "polypersonalism" are you referring to languages where multiple arguments in a clause trigger agreement on the predicate?
- Thu May 22, 2014 1:34 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9839
Re: 24-hour speedlanging challenge
I might revamp this sometime over the summer, seems like it was a fun idea.
- Wed May 14, 2014 11:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899674
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
Zeluzhia presents a lot of opportunity for developing new cultures. It's inhabited from the mesolithic (-14000 ish) and humans probably reach the southern tip by around -6000, and what Cedh has mentioned constitutes the entirety of what's defined. Go forth and create I think I will! Doing some stuf...
- Mon May 12, 2014 2:48 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899674
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
I think I might! Been throwing around some for a Mande-ish/Atlantic-ish language tonight, would be cool to start populating the continent!Cedh wrote:You're more than welcome to add more languages and cultures, of course!
- Mon May 12, 2014 12:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899674
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
I get the impression that Zeluzhia remains very unexplored/developed as a continent, am I right? How much work has been done on the languages / history of the continent?
- Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: In search of isolating conlangs
- Replies: 158
- Views: 41630