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- Sat Nov 17, 2012 10:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
- Replies: 119
- Views: 27381
Re: Most beautiful/ugliest languages
- Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Phonological features* you dislike...
- Replies: 79
- Views: 14327
Re: Phonological features* you dislike...
Personally, I don't much care for very vowelly languages. CV syllables are boring. I suppose that might have something to do with me being a budding Slavicist.
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:29 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Agglutination and Compound Words
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5890
Re: Agglutination and Compound Words
Obviously though this is a really extreme example, most words are nowhere near that long (and yes, in spite of the hyphens of the standard orthography, that's all one word, since it begins with a person-marking proclitic and ends with an inflectional suffix) Oh man, I was all set to post a long Sen...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:26 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Verbs that indicate which level of formality should be used
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5343
Re: Verbs that indicate which level of formality should be u
Huh, Russian seems kind of boring in this regard. Давай перейдём на «ты» "Let's cross/switch to "ты".
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Agglutination and Compound Words
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5890
Re: Agglutination and Compound Words
Obviously though this is a really extreme example, most words are nowhere near that long (and yes, in spite of the hyphens of the standard orthography, that's all one word, since it begins with a person-marking proclitic and ends with an inflectional suffix) Oh man, I was all set to post a long Sen...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How would you diagram this English sentence?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7245
Re: How would you diagram this English sentence?
A fancier explanation is that the subordinator turns the clause into a modifier ("the fact that she was crazy", "the idea that we left") and that the head noun is omitted. But I'm not sure that actually gains us anything. That was my first thought but I wasn't sure how to fit that into a syntax tre...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 11933
Re: Rain (n) Rain (vb) ~ Different Languages...?
In Russian, 'rain' (the noun) is дождь dozhd' and 'it's raining' is идёт дождь idjot dozhd' (lit. 'rain walks' or 'rain goes').
Also, 'food' is еда jeda and 'to eat' is есть jest'. Я ем ja jem 'I eat', ты ешь ty jesh' 'you (sg.) eat', etc.
Also, 'food' is еда jeda and 'to eat' is есть jest'. Я ем ja jem 'I eat', ты ешь ty jesh' 'you (sg.) eat', etc.
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How would you diagram this English sentence?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7245
How would you diagram this English sentence?
That we left should impress Phoebe.
A friend asked me how I would draw a syntax tree for this sentence and I'm stumped. Is that we left behaving as an NP here?
A friend asked me how I would draw a syntax tree for this sentence and I'm stumped. Is that we left behaving as an NP here?
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8708
Re: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
So apparently English speakers see "up" as being yesterday. I, being a Swedish speaker, see "up" as tomorrow. :? "Up" in a temporal sense seems to be very ambiguous in English. My semantics professor surveyed our class about the meaning of "The exam is scheduled for October 27, but I now have a con...
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651466
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Bob Johnson wrote:comma chameleonfinlay wrote:Skomakar'n wrote:comma comma comma comma comma comma comma comma comma comma comma
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:55 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 314438
Re: resources
I promised in another thread that I'd post some information on agreement in the Ndu language Manambu. It's here as part of a blog post, now that I've got my blog working: http://chrisdb.dyndns-at-home.com/blog/page/role-insensitive-agreement The formatting of the side bar is slightly stuffed up for...
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: If I had a time machine...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3687
Re: If I had a time machine...
Hear, hear. I'm studying Native American linguistics in the Southwest US, and every time I think there are under-documented languages around here, I try to remember how good we have it compared to Australia. There are so many interesting linguistic features in Australia; it's a real shame we know so...
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8708
Re: Lingustic Relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Once again I've had to listen to someone spread the lie of "Eskimos have over 9000 words for snow.", and what I see as very dubious claims about linguistic relativism. Every time I hear someone put forth the claim that "Eskimos have X number of words for snow" I like to respond that English probabl...
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Mayan ordinals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1233
Re: Mayan ordinals
At first that seems like that should mean two stars but that would require ek' to be in the plural. At least in K'iche, plural marking on a noun isn't necessary if there's a numeral. Most K'iche nouns don't have plural forms anyway; unless the noun refers to a human or (some) higher animals, you ju...
- Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Mayan ordinals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1233
Re: Mayan ordinals
I'm taking a K'iche' class this semester. I have no idea what other Mayan languages do, but in K'iche' "second star" is ukaab' lee ch'imil second CLF star Actually, that'd translate better as "the star is second", I think. lee ukaab'a ch'imil (or lu'kaab'a ch'imil with the elision) might be better. ...
- Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:41 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
- Replies: 285
- Views: 37580
Re: Words you love because of their sounds
ostensibly
- Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:07 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: City layouts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21844
Re: City layouts
I like living in Albuquerque because it's so easy to find my way around. http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/mmenzens/ScreenShot2011-09-21at54819PM.png At the eastern (right) side of the photo are the Sandia mountains. The mountains make it really easy to navigate because you can always see th...
- Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:18 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words you hate because of their sounds
- Replies: 251
- Views: 32108
Re: Words you hate because of their sounds
No one's mentioned moist yet? I don't have a problem with it, personally, but I hear people complain about it fairly often.
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 363689
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:28 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
- Replies: 469
- Views: 139652
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to?
I'm finally getting around to reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. This might take a while.
- Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
- Replies: 100
- Views: 14346
Re: Linguistic resources you wish actually existed
A modern, thorough reference grammar of Cayuga.
There's information out there, but most of it is fifty years old and not much of it deals satisfactorily with the phonology.
There's information out there, but most of it is fifty years old and not much of it deals satisfactorily with the phonology.
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Accents
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11251
Re: Accents
There's a linguistics professor here who I assumed was a native speaker of English. I was very surprised to learn that his first language is German. He is a phonetician, though; maybe that gives him an advantage.
- Tue May 17, 2011 6:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Words that are their own opposites
- Replies: 107
- Views: 14646
Re: Words that are their own opposites
What about inflammable?
- Sun May 15, 2011 7:50 pm
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: Transitive vs. Intransitive
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9854
Re: Transitive vs. Intransitive
Is this the difference between say "looking" and "seeing" (passive)? I was actually about to ask about this. That's more of a distinction on the semantic role of the subject. "Looking (at)" implies more of a conscious and volitional action; the subject is more agent-like. "Seeing" implies more of a...
- Sat May 14, 2011 9:39 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 363689