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by kodé
Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:32 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: inflection categories using differing affix types
Replies: 17
Views: 5894

Re: inflection categories using differing affix types

This seems fairly common, the more I think about it. I think the root of the phenomenon (partly) is verb forms being built off of historically non-verbal forms, like participles. For example, in Modern Hebrew, while the past and future conjugate their subjects for person, gender, and number with suf...
by kodé
Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:32 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Zompist
Replies: 12
Views: 6891

Re: Zompist

i remember reading on his site a long, long time ago that "zompist" was a type of humor he invented as a kid. corroboration?
by kodé
Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:02 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Like these ones here https://www.flickr.com/photos/154814364@N02/34580144324/in/album-72157685182293706/ Note indeed that traditions at your own university may significantly differ. Or indeed at my own college: certainly this doesn't looke like something I'd expect at Selwyn, what with it being a l...
by kodé
Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:10 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Too many happy things for me lately. My episode of Jeopardy! airs this Friday on your local ABC affiliate in the US. And I mention a conlang! Which reminds me, I need to post about it on here... Congratulations! My cousin was on Jeopardy! twice (I think "teenage Jeopardy!" back when that was a thin...
by kodé
Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:39 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Too many happy things for me lately. My episode of Jeopardy! airs this Friday on your local ABC affiliate in the US. And I mention a conlang! Which reminds me, I need to post about it on here...
by kodé
Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:21 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Replies: 323
Views: 93392

Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election

Here's something about British politics I've always wanted to know more about: what's the deal with the shadow cabinet? I gather that they're from the out-of-power parties, but I have no idea what they actually do. For example, does the shadow Home Secretary ever work with the Home Secretary on what...
by kodé
Mon May 22, 2017 10:56 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: verbal agreement other than person
Replies: 4
Views: 2833

Re: verbal agreement other than person

Modern Hebrew verbs in the present tense agree for gender and number, not person; these forms are derived from participles, IIRC. I think the same is true for some Russian verb forms based on participles. Both of these languages do, however, have person agreement elsewhere in their morphology. Many ...
by kodé
Tue May 09, 2017 1:47 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Ryusenshi wrote:My band is on a roll! We're surely going to be ready for our concert on May 18!
sweeeet! what kind of music do you play?
by kodé
Wed May 03, 2017 12:09 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé! Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about? It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an...
by kodé
Tue May 02, 2017 12:11 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé! Well, THAT's really cool! Congratulations! What's it about? It's about how cyclic computation of words in morphosyntax can result in recursion of prosodic words (a.k.a. phonological words). It's an...
by kodé
Mon May 01, 2017 3:12 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Turned in my dissertation to my committee!!! If I can defend it in a month, then I'll be DOCTOR kodé!
by kodé
Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:27 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301579

Re: Venting thread

My dissertation needs to be finished, like FINISHED finished, in less than three weeks, and I still have a major chapter that's mostly unwritten and still needs research. I really, really don't want to take another semester, especially since I'm not guaranteed funding, but if I can't pull myself tog...
by kodé
Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:26 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
Replies: 98
Views: 29107

Re: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated

https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/ Yes, that Eugene Chan's site; I've corresponded with him quite a bit and he provided me with his huge Austronesian database. My site was up first. :) Any good database of Austronesian must be huge. That language family continues to impress me the more I look ...
by kodé
Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
Replies: 98
Views: 29107

Re: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated

Ah, didn't realize they were under "Mesoamerica". I guess it makes sense that you wouldn't want to split up the Penutian macro-family, since there are members all along the Pacific coast. I guess dividing non-Na-Dene/Eskimo-Aleut indigenous Western Hemisphere languages intro geographical groups woul...
by kodé
Fri Sep 02, 2016 4:35 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
Replies: 98
Views: 29107

Re: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated

It might just be my tired eyes, but it seems like a bunch of Penutian languages/language families are missing, e.g., Miwok and Yokuts. I've got a grammar of (Southern?) Sierra Miwok hiding around somewhere, and I have quite a few resources on Yokuts (my colleagues and I have done quite a bit of work...
by kodé
Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:29 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Quick Mandarin question
Replies: 12
Views: 4300

Re: Quick Mandarin question

Vijay wrote:
kodé wrote:
Zaarin wrote:Thanks.
You mean, xiexie 谢谢! :P
You mean xièxie (or xièxiè)! ;)
Oh yeah, forgot to write in the tones. Whoops!
by kodé
Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:39 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore). Congratulations!! Also isn't that true! It takes a ridiculously long time. I don't look forward...
by kodé
Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:59 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

I'm getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal!!! Although it won't appear in print until about a year from now (which is why people are starting not to like ink-and-paper journals anymore).
by kodé
Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:58 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Dependency phonology?
Replies: 4
Views: 2467

Re: Dependency phonology?

A quick perusal of what you've linked to is that Dependency Phonology is within the family of contemporary European-style phonology (i.e., non-OT). It seems really close to Government Phonology and Elementary Phonology, and reminds me of work by Tobias Scheer and the late, great Jean-Roger Vergnaud....
by kodé
Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Dependency phonology?
Replies: 4
Views: 2467

Re: Dependency phonology?

I'm ABD in phonology, and I've never heard of "Dependency Phonology" (though I do know that Colin Ewen is the co-editor of Phonology , so that has to count for something). And I'm familiar with mainstream North American OT theories (including Stratal OT (heir to Lexical Phonology), Cophonology Theor...
by kodé
Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:46 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Quick Mandarin question
Replies: 12
Views: 4300

Re: Quick Mandarin question

Zaarin wrote:Thanks.
You mean, xiexie 谢谢! :P
by kodé
Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:18 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370393

Re: Happy Things Thread

Good!
by kodé
Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Just how exactly do Semitic tri-consonantal roots work?
Replies: 22
Views: 6913

Re: Just how exactly do Semitic tri-consonantal roots work?

The whole "does Semitic really have triconsonantal roots or is it all really just word-to-word relations" has been a burning question in theoretical (and, more recently, psycho-) linguistics for decades. you'd have to read a good deal of literature before you had enough background on various theorie...
by kodé
Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: At what point do we accept variation into standard English?
Replies: 74
Views: 14655

Re: At what point do we accept variation into standard Engli

If you mean reasonably careful writing... contractions like "isn't" are perfectly acceptable in journalism, in most nonfiction, in bureaucratic writing (e.g. the IRS), in literary fiction, in plays and movies, in business correspondence. "Gonna" is however only OK in reported speech. This is true: ...
by kodé
Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:06 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
Replies: 190
Views: 93288

Re: Bizarre Sound Changes

Frislander wrote:Some Levantine Arabic varieties: short *i and *u are neutralised to schwa in stressed syllables but remain separate in unstressed syllables (for examples see Wikipedia).
Whoa, super weird! Also some theories of vowel stress and quality (e.g., Paul de Lacy's) predict that this should be impossible.