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- Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: inflection categories using differing affix types
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5995
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...
- Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7342
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?
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:02 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:10 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:39 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:21 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97189
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...
- Mon May 22, 2017 10:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: verbal agreement other than person
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2877
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 ...
- Tue May 09, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
Re: Happy Things Thread
sweeeet! what kind of music do you play?Ryusenshi wrote:My band is on a roll! We're surely going to be ready for our concert on May 18!
- Wed May 03, 2017 12:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Tue May 02, 2017 12:11 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Mon May 01, 2017 3:12 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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!
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:27 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 317201
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...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:26 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
- Replies: 98
- Views: 29625
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 ...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:15 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
- Replies: 98
- Views: 29625
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...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Numbers from 1 to 10 updated
- Replies: 98
- Views: 29625
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...
- Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:29 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick Mandarin question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4393
Re: Quick Mandarin question
Oh yeah, forgot to write in the tones. Whoops!Vijay wrote:You mean xièxie (or xièxiè)!kodé wrote:You mean, xiexie 谢谢!Zaarin wrote:Thanks.
- Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:39 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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...
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:59 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
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).
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:58 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Dependency phonology?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2512
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....
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Dependency phonology?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2512
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...
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Quick Mandarin question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4393
Re: Quick Mandarin question
You mean, xiexie 谢谢!Zaarin wrote:Thanks.
- Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:18 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376578
Re: Happy Things Thread
Good!
- Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Just how exactly do Semitic tri-consonantal roots work?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7070
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...
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: At what point do we accept variation into standard English?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 14962
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: ...
- Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:06 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
- Replies: 190
- Views: 96521
Re: Bizarre Sound Changes
Whoa, super weird! Also some theories of vowel stress and quality (e.g., Paul de Lacy's) predict that this should be impossible.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).