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- Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Good syntax books
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16746
Re: Good syntax books
I just hope you'll attempt to include as much content as you can on how syntactic theories can be applied to languages other than English, instead of writing another introduction to the study of English syntax. This is easily one of the top reasons why conlangers don't seem to be interested in moder...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114010
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
I recently heard SPA (single-page application) pronounced the same as spa, /spɑ/.
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114010
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Trump's recent stand on NAFTA has gotten people on the radio to talk about its effects on ag (agriculture) here (among other economic fields).
I recently heard "CLI" (command line interface) pronounced as /kli/ too.
I recently heard "CLI" (command line interface) pronounced as /kli/ too.
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:50 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The Arrakum language (aspects of aspect)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 26662
Re: The Arrakum language (aspects of aspect)
Basically, I was trying to say that you should have either four (labial, etc.) or up to twelve (bilabial, etc.) locations across the top of your code. While the latter's true, you mix a major class of articulation (labial) with more specific places (glottal), which confuses people. Oh c'mon, not ev...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:02 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763914
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Buk=tšak' k'áh-lə-tsə=tša=zə tol-sa-yəm=zə yår-mu ġå-yw-o=pə gaw-ə. over=ALL carry-PFV-GER=DAT=REL much-COMP-P.M=REL thing-P.M find.PFV-1.S-3.P.M=COMP be_necessary.IPFV-3.S.M [ˈbukʰtɕʰækʼ ˈkʼɑhlɐtsʰɐtɕʰæzɐ ˈtʰolsæjɐmzɐ ˈjɔɾmu ˈɣɔjwopʰɐ ˈɡæwɐ] I need to find more things to translate. naupi antama ri...
- Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: unambiguous syntax and grammar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5972
Re: unambiguous syntax and grammar
Huh? Sindyr has a whole lot of posts in C&C Quickies for their conlang, which while not explicitly stated, is basically an attempt at a logical conlang (and people have even pointed them to the various logical conlangs that are already hanging about). To the point where at first I thought this thre...
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:55 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: unambiguous syntax and grammar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5972
Re: unambiguous syntax and grammar
Obligatory XY problem avoidance: why do you want to find them? Do you have a goal in mind? In responce to lojbans complexity I have created several conlangs with the subject and now I research how others did it and in what way differently. Maybe my approach has flaws I'd find worth fixing before I ...
- Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: unambiguous syntax and grammar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5972
Re: unambiguous syntax and grammar
English is obviously ambiguous. In the phrase `Red roses and apples' - are apples red? That's not an example of ambiguity for subject-marking though. :P You want the classic " Fruit flies like a banana " instead (bananas and fruits in general are able to fly, why do you ask?). But if you do mean sy...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 4:08 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4563
Re: Should I make the lexicon or grammar first?
A grammar needs examples that use part of the lexicon.
An entry in the lexicon is often not complete without information about grammar.
Why not both at the same time?
An entry in the lexicon is often not complete without information about grammar.
Why not both at the same time?
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:34 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ZBB Conlang Index (check the first post)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 26381
Re: ZBB Conlang Index (check the first post)
I have changed the title of the thread to reflect this.Ryan of Tinellb wrote:It took me a while to work out that the index is the first post, and that it's being kept updated.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:41 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ZBB Conlang Index (check the first post)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 26381
Re: ZBB Conlang Index
Checked for rotten links again, and deleted the ones I found.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 6:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14635
Re: Phonemes which are found in <5 languages or so
amazing that /t d n s l/ are so rare. There must be a reasn, such as tracking only pure /t/ isntead of /tɣ/~/tʲ/ etc, since for sure there are more languages with coronal elementals than that! e.g. even /s/ shows up at only about 45% . Dental and alveolar consonants are separated. For example, Nene...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:05 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Your first conscript
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6650
Your first conscript
We've discussed our first conlangs in the past, but what about our first conscripts? When I was 9 years old, in El Salvador, my parents bought me a keyboard to start taking piano lessons. It came with a manual in various languages, including Japanese and Chinese. I had seen Japanese/Chinese characte...
- Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:02 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141164
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Has sido un ¿Acaso te has vuelto filósofo? En espagnol les noms des professions ne prennent pas d'article si l'on ne les modifie pas, comme en français et en italien. In Spanish, the names of professions don't take an article when they're not modified, as in French and Italian. Peut-être que tu es ...
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 4:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Odd pronunciation of a Chinese name
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7633
Re: Odd pronunciation of a Chinese name
Different Mandarin speakers will pronounce it in slightly different ways, but either "[weɪ tɕyə̯n]" (like zompist) or "[weɪ tɕyn]" (like Vijay) are good.
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Word Order and Nominal Cases
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3430
Re: Word Order and Nominal Cases
It's definitely part of conlanging lore though. I've seen conlangers making such a claim over the years at various points.Vijay wrote:It's not as far as I'm aware.vergil wrote:So I've heard the accepted wisdom is that, generally, SOV-type languages have lots of cases, while SVO-type languages have few or none.
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Adpositional Adverb Complex Sentence word order
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2914
Re: Adpositional Adverb Complex Sentence word order
in my syntax tree below I had to move it to the middle, because in syntax trees lines cannot cross Just as an aside, James McCawley would have disagreed. He played with trees where lines could cross, connecting to somewhere else than their linear order. So you could put your -que in its proper line...
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Adpositional Adverb Complex Sentence word order
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2914
Re: Adpositional Adverb Complex Sentence word order
I've never seen a language that allowed sentences (or any long constituent) to be coordinated by an "and" at the end, after juxtaposing both elements, and I doubt that they exist. There's just not much of a point of having an "and" if it's not at or near where the sentences or constituents are separ...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Minimizing the noun-verb distinction? [split from Random Thread]
- Replies: 67
- Views: 21182
Re: Random Thread
Any other languages with such or similar feature? How many are there in Bulgarian? I think there's literally only two of such in Spanish: Correveidile corre-ve-y-di-le run.2SG.IMP-see.2SG.IMP-and-tell.2SG.IMP-him/her 'a gossip, tattler' Tentempié ten-te-en-pie hold.2SG.IMP-yourself-on-foot 'a snack...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1141164
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
.התאמצתי כל כך הרבה כשהייתי בארץ כדי להגיע לרמה הזאת בעברית. איזה באסה שאשכח אותה בסוף Hit’amatsti kol kakh harbë kshe-hayiti ba-Arets kdey lehagia‘ la-ramä ha-zot be-‘ivrit. Eyzë bāsä she-eshkaḥ otä ba-sof. I made such a big effort to get to this level of Hebrew when I was in Israel. What a shame ...
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 156568
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
It wasn't until about four years ago that I finally learned "category" is not pronounced */kəˈtɛgəɹi/ but /ˈkætəgɔɹi/.
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664281
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
"complex" Here in Vancouver, the noun is always pronounced cómplex, but I hear the adjective pronounced both cómplex and compléx. Curiously, when people say compléx, they usually say it in a slower, more careful way, which makes me think it must feel a bit artificial to speakers or something. Do you...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:30 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 898749
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
Not down for me.
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 8:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How many words do you need?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4720
How many words do you need?
A user from another forum (reineke, language-learners.org forum) made mention of this interesting paper. Nichols, Johanna. "How many words do you need?" Published: 2005-01-18. Accessed: 2017-08-23. URL: http://emeld.org/school/classroom/text/lexicon-size.html Introduction: How much material is neede...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Singing pronunciation in different languages
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6286
Re: Singing pronunciation in different languages
There's nothing, as far as I can tell, to be remarked upon pronunciation-wise in most of merengue, salsa, cumbia, tango, flamenco, reggaeton, or pop/rock music in Spanish, other than the fact stress is sometimes placed in an unusual syllable to fit the music or the rhythm. For example, you can hear ...