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- Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19224
Re: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
Kind of painful to read someone talking about pronunciation with apparently no understanding of allophony or phonetic environment. E.g. you can't have <ia> = [ajej] at the end of a word, and I'm pretty sure four of those x's are allophonic. Mandarin x is not terribly obscure-- Xi'an, Xinjiang, Deng...
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
So...wait, zero-grades derive from e-grades? (Or are they 'a-grades'?)
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
For one thing, why do syllabified sonorants yield long vowels, not short vowels? Where do they yield long vowels? If *e₁ *e₂ *o₂ *o₁ *i *u = *a *i *ā *u *ī *ū, as the six-vowel theory proposes, then we've got syllabified *w *y giving long *ī *ū in pre-IE. Nort proposes there may have been schwa-epe...
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
It seems bizarre that the only time /a:/ would show up is in the ablaut system. Nah, not really, given that it's largely only detectable because of ablaut. It's like saying "it seems bizarre that we can only internally distinguish Germanic *e and *i in Gothic on the basis of their ablaut alternants...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 2:11 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
is there anything especially appealing about an unmotivated general ejective > implosive shift, other than that it explains the dearth of /b/? Is this shift typologically common? It happened in Yucatec Maya (/pʼ/ > /ɓ/ only), and it happened several times independently in Afroasiatic. There doesn't...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44930
Re: Classical Composers
An interesting article about the revival of the fugue in this week's Economist.
Excellent thread, by the way. (Though I've recently become something of a Holst/RVW man myself...)
Excellent thread, by the way. (Though I've recently become something of a Holst/RVW man myself...)
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142106
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Кажется, что я начню преподавать в Ченгду в январе! Как я счастливый
Looks like I'll start teaching in Chengdu come January! So excited
Looks like I'll start teaching in Chengdu come January! So excited
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142106
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Думаю, что нет. Ну, возмооооожно да...а это бы наверно было в Магнитогорске или Магадане или где-то, где я совсем не хочу жить. Я рассмотрел Казахстан, а предлоги работы не были так предстоящими, как я наделся. I don't think so. Well--it might be possible, yes--but this would probably be in Magnito...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142106
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Я закончил университет в мае и, с сентября, работаю английский язык в Санкт-Петербурге. Мне нравятся фирма и мои одноработники, а есть проблема: я на мели. После налога и аренды для квартиры, я зарабатываю рублей 20т на месяц–приблизительно $350. I graduated uniiversity in May and, since September,...
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 12:46 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142106
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Я закончил университет в мае и, с сентября, работаю английский язык в Санкт-Петербурге. Мне нравятся фирма и мои одноработники, а есть проблема: я на мели. После налога и аренды для квартиры, я зарабатываю рублей 20т на месяц–приблизительно $350. I graduated uniiversity in May and, since September,...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Seems to be a theme issue. Subsilver2 distinguishes the two; prosilver doesn't. I've switched themes, now, but it might be worth looking into... (...particularly since Subsilver2 doesn't really distinguish subscript 2 and 3 when italicized...)
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Kath beat me to it. I took IE phonology with Lubotsky and Kroonen two summers ago, and the word in question when this came up was Skt. avis --by Brugmann's, we should see āvis , but we don't. A reconstruction of *h₃éwis suffices to explain the Sanskrit reflex as well as the rest of core IE and Hitti...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Brahmic Scripts
- Replies: 93
- Views: 29618
Re: Brahmic Scripts
Any update on the Tocharian font, even if just one that replaces existing codepoints? A small side project of mine is designing and producing a flag (or perhaps bumper sticker, or hat) with the slogan MAKE TOCHARIA GREAT AGAIN.
- Tue Jun 20, 2017 7:26 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Just finished reading a rather long article on reduplication . The first half argues that the reduplicant starts off copying segments from the base towards using fixed segments in the reduplicant. The author then looks specifically at PIE and concludes that the present reduplication in Italo-Celtic...
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:18 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
- Replies: 190
- Views: 96897
Re: Bizarre Sound Changes
Yeah, typo.
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:16 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
- Replies: 190
- Views: 96897
Re: Bizarre Sound Changes
Everyone likes to trot out Plains Algonquian for bizarre North American sound changes, but Salishan is just as bad. Sources are Galloway's 'Some proto-central Salish sound correspondences' in In Honor of Mary Haas , and chapter 1 of Kroeber's The Salish Language Family . *p *p' *m to tʃ tʃ' ŋ in mos...
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5824
Re: Other planets' orbits? (A conastrology question)
Might be worth getting a copy of Universe Sandbox 2 on Steam and building a model of your system in it. Universe Sandbox has a command (I think it's the 'C' button) that lets you stand on the surface of a planet and view the rest of the system in its sky, watching the sun rise and fall and the plane...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 765409
Re: Help your conlang fluency
τεέиι σχόλασο αφίσο ίξα βιβλιτίνον ιφί τεγῆ Μενομινισχῆ κρίβα.
[te.'eθi 'skʰolaso a'pʰiso 'iksa bibli'tinon i'pʰi te'geʔ menomini'skʰeʔ 'kriba]
I'm skipping class today, because I'm writing my essay on the Menominee language.
[te.'eθi 'skʰolaso a'pʰiso 'iksa bibli'tinon i'pʰi te'geʔ menomini'skʰeʔ 'kriba]
I'm skipping class today, because I'm writing my essay on the Menominee language.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Greek Learning Source Req'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2338
Re: Greek Learning Source Req'
From experience, I can recommend From Alpha to Omega by Anne H. Groton. I can't remember if it's in the Pile, but it's certainly on libgen. (And a dead-tree copy from Amazon is pretty reasonably priced, too.) My only complaint about it is that the last ten chapters or so pack waaaaay too much in (li...
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Frislander's scratchpad
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19162
Re: Frislander's scratchpad
Goddard wrote a pretty meaty article on Algonquian demonstratives in the Frank T. Siebert memorial volume, which I've emailed to you. Yeah, I was going to reintroduce /t/ from *θ and merge *r with /n/. *k and *h merge as /ʔ/, while original *s became /h/...I dunno, maybe that many unconditional soun...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Frislander's scratchpad
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19162
Re: Frislander's scratchpad
Good to see you're still working on this; it's impressive. Also, rereading it it's come to my attention that you've beaten me to a number of things I wanted to do with my Algolang, like the t > k > ʔ chainshift and *e > a... Re: the conjunct, I'm pretty sure every Algonquian language retains more th...
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114237
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
rill- a small stream or brook.
- Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:45 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: A guide to small consonant inventories
- Replies: 129
- Views: 79336
Re: A guide to small consonant inventories
Some emendations and additions, mostly Algonquian, might be in order. (<@nort> make an poast in the thread>) Fox has eleven consonants, with /p t tʃ k m n s ʃ h w j/. (Some people analyze Fox as having a preaspirated series as well, but the preaspirates don't occur word-initially, are often over a m...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:53 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 209114
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Frederik Kortlandt, otherwise respected Indo-Europeanist, writes article about...something. The existence of non-constructible sets offers a solution for the problem of the philosopher’s stone. I think that the philosopher’s stone is a 4-dimensional object and that it is crossing the 3-dimensional ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:13 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462190
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
A little bird scanned and put on Libgen a study by Jörunder Hilmarsson on the Tocharian dual, as a scan didn't previously seem to exist. It may be of interest.