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by Space Dracula
Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:09 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: A Brief History of Grammar
Replies: 24
Views: 14033

we've had huge arguments over this before but that title's sort of inaccurate you should instead say "Generative Grammar" there, because otherwise you're implying that you're writing about the development of grammar as a component of language which is both misleading, and in my snot-nosed opinion re...
by Space Dracula
Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:37 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404318

Baby sloths are so adorable.
by Space Dracula
Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:32 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: Wekipeijua?
Replies: 8
Views: 4404

Can you imagine the hell any of us would catch for doing something this obtuse? I'm sure there's some complicated justification someone could give for implementing something from contemporary pop culture in a conworld, but somewhere this tears the fourth wall down too far. Next thing you know he's g...
by Space Dracula
Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:20 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 637131

Dewrad wrote:
Joecool wrote:Concerning the Aramaic Greek thing you were talking about, Since Greek is so different from English, it is actually more accurate to translate from Greek to Aramaic to English.
Shit me but that's funny :D
I maintain that Joecool is some kind of elaborate joke.
by Space Dracula
Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:36 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145732

"eigentlich". I surely miss "eigentlich". LEO has lots of translations, which means that none of them actually hits the mark. Most definitely, and all the other Abtönungspartikel, such as "halt" and "ja" etc. as well. I also miss "doch". BTW, eigentlich literally translates as 'ownly' Oddly, I miss...
by Space Dracula
Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:35 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 188347

Vegetarian option: omit sausage. Again. This can be substituted rather then omitted. They do actually make sausages out of tofu or weat. Urgh. I'm sorry, but meat substitute is just wrong . While I'm not a strict vegetarian, I do eat more vegetarian food than non-vegetarian because of its economy, ...
by Space Dracula
Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:22 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Correspondence Library
Replies: 568
Views: 284617

Also, plz to giving me sound changes that lead to High German dialects, esp. Swiss German and Bavarian.
by Space Dracula
Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:21 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Correspondence Library
Replies: 568
Views: 284617

What about Proto-Germanic to modern High German? I don't know these as such, but I can give some links in the right direction: http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Marmaria/ohg/ohg_primer_contents.htm (Also in image form at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/ohg_wright_about.html ) http://...
by Space Dracula
Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:13 pm
Forum: Almea
Topic: So... who're ewemi?
Replies: 54
Views: 19447

Assuming a gume is masculine, I'd be that physically--I'm stocky, reasonably strong for not working out, and very hairy--but an ewez mentally. I tend not to consider myself to be manly at all.
by Space Dracula
Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:34 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 84806

Just thought that I'd throw in that I'm doing some very non-mainstream (= makes sense) literary analysis and have stumbled across some ideas tangent with cognitive linguistics, which is making me want to buy a more formal book on it. Of course the work isn't explicitly grammatical, but there are sti...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Nonetheless, adjectives in English in LFG are usually analyzed this way: http://www.kutjara.com/adjectives.png Then how do you account for the difference between "the little old man" (which contains "old man" as a sub-unit) and "the little, old man" (which doesn't)? I said usually . There I would p...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:45 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/tree1.png ;) Spack, two of your trees aren't loading. At least one of my trees are hosted by Miekko there, whose server is his computer, and is thus prone to issues. Also, everyone's tree analyses for homework are correct, which means that you're clever and I expl...
by Space Dracula
Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:39 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Echobeats wrote:Ternary branching! Heretic!
Ternary branching is a feature in LFG, not a bug.
by Space Dracula
Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:50 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

So anyway, I've covered constituents and in general how to identify them. Constituent identification can be hairy, but don't worry too much about it now. In this post I'm going to cover how constituents combine to form larger constituents and so forth. This is basically what syntax is all about: how...
by Space Dracula
Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:33 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

I'd like to see an example of this australian language. If you don't have one, whyever did you do the tree in the first place? I'm intrigued. By the way, my exam went alright, but it was pretty easy. We have done stuff like most of this before but the exam was less difficult. Also I'm wondering why...
by Space Dracula
Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:08 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Here's a term you might benefit from knowing later on: theta role Semantic role - for instance, the agent is the agent regardless of whether it's a nominative subject or an oblique argument in a passive or even something else in some constructions in other languages. I should also note that I might...
by Space Dracula
Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:20 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404318

Foxen rock.
by Space Dracula
Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:41 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 84806

There's a whole book on fuzzy syntactic categories-- Linguistic Categorization by John Taylor-- well worth looking at. I heartily second zomp's endorsement of the Taylor book! It presents a wonderfully concise, coherent, and comprehensive treatment of the same ideas presented in Lakoff's famous but...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:38 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Not exactly illustrating the same principle, but still within the larger vein of "why isn't the second one grammatical?" That's what I meant to ask for, sorry if there was any confusion. [/quote] 1) a. The boy threw a ball at the girl. b. The boy threw the girl a ball. 2) a. The boy threw a ball at...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Question: how is LFG related to optimality theory? I ask this because I've read an article by Bresnan ( The emergence of the unmarked pronoun , PDF ) which made heavy use of OT methods. A lot of LFGers use OT to expand LFG to include phonology. Basically the way they relate is LFG generates possibl...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:07 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

One of the foundational topics of syntax covered in every syntax book I have (that's introductory at least) is the notion of the "syntactic constituent": things like nouns, verbs, and phrases. It's possible for a constituent at a certain "level" to be more than one word long, as long as the words ar...
by Space Dracula
Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:11 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction
Replies: 62
Views: 40019

Syntax - a multi-perspective introduction

Fancy title, isn't it? In any case, Miekko has volunteered to help me out with this. We've pretty much agreed to approach it on a topic-by-topic basis, analyzing phenomena from different angles where possible. The focus, though, is going to be LFG, since that's what Miekko and I both are most profic...
by Space Dracula
Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 84806

I should probably let you know that Aristotlean logic has been bunk for a long time now. :D Maybe you're targeting propositional logic in particular?

Also, as far as the trend of modelling language with logic goes, I think there's some promise for computability logic and linear logic.
by Space Dracula
Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:17 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Metaphors We Live By
Replies: 35
Views: 27074

We can; we can even get across the poetics, if we work at it enough. The problem with that is the amount of effort necessary to convey a discrete unit of meaning not already present in the language can approach infinity. Imagine trying to explain an analogy to an automobile to a Papuan native who h...