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- Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Rahfatge phonemic inventory and orthography
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6288
Re: Rahfatge phonemic inventory and orthography
Awesome aesthetic.
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Transplanting (Starting over, but not quite)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8985
Re: Transplanting (Starting over, but not quite)
Gametes?YngNghymru wrote:Hmm. How are they still male if they carry the child to term?
Ask the seahorse.
- Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Use of 'where' as a general clausal conjunction
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2397
Re: Use of 'where' as a general clausal conjunction
No, I don't hear "where" used for people. It sounds ungrammatical to me.
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311572
Re: The dream thread
In my dream, I saw a baboon riding a motor scooter. I was driving. The baboon wasn't riding very well, it was drifting. Then it drifted onto the sidewalk and creamed this little girl who was walking with her dad. She started crying. Then I was on foot with a friend, and I said we should go help the ...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Syllables
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6205
Re: Syllables
I must ask, Phonotactics/Syllable structures, have anyone of you guys ever heard of a language that differ how syllable structures are done depending on their location in the word? As words starts with a specific construction of syllable (or syllables) but then middle/last differ from that one? AFA...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Secondary features of ergative languages.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4496
Re: Secondary features of ergative languages.
Have you checked the Universals Archive?
This should take you to a search on the term "ergative."
I think it looks promising.
EDIT: Oops, that link didn't do what I thought it would. Guess you'll have to type in "ergative" yourself.
This should take you to a search on the term "ergative."
I think it looks promising.
EDIT: Oops, that link didn't do what I thought it would. Guess you'll have to type in "ergative" yourself.
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Can you read these words?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3304
Re: Can you read these numbers?
***To the previous poster: That is not an eight. Not, I say! Not! It's not consistent with the other eights in the... blueprint (?). Sure it is. It's got the exact same size and shape, minus the missing bits. The SW end clearly curves back up toward center, as it does in 8. What it's not consistent...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Can you read these words?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3304
Re: Can you read these numbers?
Top row L-R looks like 108, 112, 118, 120.
Bottom row is 134*, 146**, 148, 154, 158, 166.
*Looks more like 131, but that's odd.
**the 4 looks like a 7, but that'd break the sequence. 4 seems more likely.
(This is L&L how exactly?)
Bottom row is 134*, 146**, 148, 154, 158, 166.
*Looks more like 131, but that's odd.
**the 4 looks like a 7, but that'd break the sequence. 4 seems more likely.
(This is L&L how exactly?)
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:00 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 765078
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
Hmm, that expression doesn't really say that to me...
- Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:40 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 311572
Re: The dream thread
In my dream, I was in a polyandrous marriage, the other guy being the new barrista from the coffee shop near where I work. We were sitting around the kitchen table--based on my impression of the light, it must have been breakfast, though it felt like evening--and I realized I was the third wheel in ...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:03 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Flags
- Replies: 396
- Views: 81874
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Language death (split from Beli Orao's thread in Ephemera)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19744
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:36 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: What Almean languages look like
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4307
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:36 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Introducing O Yis
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9419
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:12 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Introducing O Yis
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9419
Say, I was wondering, going back a bit. Forgot to ask. How are multiply-embedded postpositional phrases handled? You had an example earlier for "the chair by the table," ni kjap m'niab zlek il , that seems to gloss roughly to "the chair the table by." If you wanted to say "the chair by the table in ...
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:06 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Introducing O Yis
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9419
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pacific Northwest Accent (Cascadian)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8554
Re: Pacific Northwest Accent (Cascadian)
I've lived there half my life. Accordingly, I have about half the features on the list. I have the Mary-merry-marry merger. I can't tell if I have the cot-caught merger--I think I generally don't distinguish between [A] and [O] much if at all (perhaps they are marginally contrastive), but those two ...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:55 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Are there other voices besides active and passive?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 31565
One's for nouns, and one's for verbs...can't wait for someone to pull out a language with 3 speakers that has dative case on verbs. You're gonna wanna read about Tlapanec . It marks case on the verb. This includes the elusive pegative case! A pegative language is somewhere on my backburner of ideas...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:45 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Are there other voices besides active and passive?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 31565
Re: Applicative voices and Case
I do not understand the difference between a "Dative applicative voice" and a "Dative Case". Is it that Dative case requires a transitive clause while a dative Voice does not? The one's a case, the other's a voice. Case is for nouns; voice, for predicates. Dative case marks the Recipient of ditrans...
- Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:09 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 87104
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:31 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 127744
u. Active Split-P Nominative D, A, S Primative R, P, S Absolutive T, P, S I think "Split-P" better describes my conlang's ditransitive MSA than "dechticaetiative." Whether a P is tagged with the R case or T case depends on the verb type, not the valency. Whereas in a dechticaetiative langauge, it's...
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:17 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 127744
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:21 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 127744
Of course as I still know next to nothing about the one "Pegative" language that exists; The only one that is known to exist, or, the only one whose existence has been published . Of course. EDIT: Also the "split" or "fluid" possibilities; having "A=D-or-R" or "P=T-or-R" or even "R=A-or-P". Hmm...I...
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:36 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 127744
Accusative-Dative: S / A P / \ D R T Accusative-Dechticaetiative: S / A P / / D R T Accusative-Pegative: S / A P \ \ D R T Ergative-Dative: S \ A P / \ D R T Ergative-Dechticaetiative: S \ A P / / D R T Ergative-Pegative: S \ A P \ \ D R T I just felt the need to do that for some reason. Of course ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:30 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
- Replies: 179
- Views: 127744
It helps to think of Subject as containing category that breaks down into Agent and Patient in monotransitives, and Patient in turn breaks down into Theme and Recipient in ditransitives. But why couldn't Agent break down into Donor and Recipient? Good point. There really should be six theta roles d...