Very good.
I am having some trouble with the alignment of features for words. That is, if I click the edit feature button, the feature doesn't apply to the word for which I clicked the button. I think it may have something to do with the reordering which doesn't seem to happen underlyingly.
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- Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:49 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:35 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
Re: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - fixed some bugs
You're right, I broke it. It'll be fixed in the next update. Speaking of character encoding, though, you'll need to set Settings -> Force Unicode to import UTF-8 files correctly if you're on Windows (which seems to always assume they aren't UTF-8). Awesome, thanks. I do have that set already. There...
- Tue Mar 18, 2014 2:17 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
Re: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - fixed some bugs
What does the file you're trying to import from look like? Sorry about the formatting code in the export - it was doing that on some of my test dictionaries, but I thought it was an artifact from the old version getting translated over. I'll see if I can fix it. EDIT: Did you import your dictionary...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
Re: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - fixed some bugs
I am having some trouble importing a lexical set from a txt file right now (it doesn't work). And export the lexicon to a txt file works, but also exports formatting code.
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
Re: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - fixed some bugs
Cool. I'll take a look. I was having some issue with the last version and the dictionary part proper, so I'll let you know if those are resolved. Edit: Well, it does work nicely now adding a phonological parse when I add the word, and I realize that my earlier trouble was from adding words that didn...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:00 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What is this construct called?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8510
Re: What is this construct called?
I think what is occurring in those two examples is a fronting/raising of a wh- element around the infinitive that would be dependent on a main clause such as "I know" or "John told Sally" If you replace the wh- word with say "thus" and "him" you will see that the infinitive doesn't depend on those w...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:15 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Game
- Replies: 2673
- Views: 573727
Re: Sound Change Game
Proto-Tlusa *idbitu [iðˈbitu] Hellenic-esque (working name): ispitu [is'pitu]
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 402612
Re: Happy Things Thread
So I officially finished my Master's thesis today, submitted to my university. I had the basic idea for quite some time now having based it on a short paper I wrote last spring but I didn't really have a good framework for the thesis until about late January/early February. Since today (March 10) is...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4845
Re: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
In English, demonstratives can stand for whole clauses: They say it will rain tomorrow. I agree with that . So you'd need to think how that would work with gendered demonstratives. You could have a separate neuter gender reserved for such occasions, or perhaps a different word entirely. Or just use...
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4845
Re: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
The first two are tied to the gender system, but I think the third (with -o) can be used for unintroduced or underspecified things. (not referring to a specific noun that is.)gach wrote:I need to refresh my Spanish a bit, but aren't these bound to the gender system of the language and obey gender agreement?
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4845
Re: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
Spanish might have something like this (my knowledge of Spanish is limited). The demonstratives have three singular forms. este, esta, esto ese, esa, eso aquel, aquella, aquello (I think this one also) The first two are masc, fem. The third is something else, but I don't think it can refer to humans...
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4845
Re: Human vs. non-human distinction in pronouns
So, in a language without grammatical gender, are there examples such as 'that.(human)' vs. 'that.(non-human)'? Is this what you are asking? I don't know of any in particular, but most of my language knowledge comes from languages with grammatical gender anyway. It seems like there would be at least...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Oscan Reconstruction
- Replies: 66
- Views: 36322
Re: Oscan Reconstruction
kanejam, if you haven't already, I recommend looking at Andrew Sihler's "A New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin". It's an updated version of Carl Buck's and while it's focused on the histories of Greek and Latin, he does draw in Oscan material and comment on Proto-Italic forms.
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 2:31 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: SCA2 questions
- Replies: 87
- Views: 32090
Re: SCA2 questions
I found a bug with the "…" wildcard, I think. Try using this rule: a/à/_/à…_ on these words akakakakakaka akkakkakkakkakkakka I would expect that only the first "a" would become "à" and the rest would be blocked, but it seems the "…" wildcard matches only one letter in the exception area if it comes...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
"The man went therefore the woman went too." This is different. You are no longer joining 2 nouns, but 2 clauses. Examples: (Joining 2 nouns) Good: The man and the woman are hungry. Good: (Either) the man or the woman is hungry. Bad: The man but the woman are/is hungry. Bad: The man therefore the w...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
Conjunctions are a terrible category in general. Often there are "conjunctions" related to prepositions (after, before); plus the classical distinction of "subordinating conjunction" vs. "coordinating conjunction". Myself, I would posit at least two categories: conjunctions (joining any two equal X ...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
Wow, lots of posts to respond to! :) Thank you all for taking the time to respond helpfully! I especially like the lists and examples, even though I'm not going to respond to them in this post; have to think about them and mentally digest them first. I'll try to answer all questions asked of me but...
- Wed Feb 19, 2014 6:10 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telmona - Word order in Tǝɣrâ (isolating V2 language)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6788
Re: Telmona - World Map
It's a bloody big mountain range. I think it's partially due to subduction, like the American Cordillera, but massive volcanism isn't out of the question either. I was asking because the way the high peaks and the plateau are situated in the interior of the continent surrounded by much lower ground...
- Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
I don't see why it's impossible to have a list of parts of speech found in all natural languages. There are a finite number of natural languages, and we can even exclude fragmentary ones. Of those, there are probably many cases where two closely related languages have exactly the same parts of spee...
- Wed Feb 19, 2014 3:29 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
Sure, well like I said, if you haven't read Zompist's stuff yet, do that. (I do recommend both the print Language Construction Kit and Advanced Language Construction (alias LCK2: Electric Boogaloo)). His books are really a good introduction into linguistic basics (and more advanced stuff also). As f...
- Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Lexical categories for beginners?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7336
Re: Lexical categories for beginners?
Sunandshadow, if you haven't already, take a look at what Zompist has written for the language construction kit (online edition if you don't have the book edition). From my perusal of Baker's Lexical Categories , nouns are words which refer to entities or concepts, verbs create predicates, and adjec...
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:06 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Telmona - Word order in Tǝɣrâ (isolating V2 language)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6788
Re: Telmona - World Map
Very nice. I like the tenuous chain of islands between the northern and western continents.
Do you have any tectonics worked out? I always like tectonic verisimilitude, but it can be difficult to arrange with some style.
Do you have any tectonics worked out? I always like tectonic verisimilitude, but it can be difficult to arrange with some style.
- Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:41 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: SCA2 questions
- Replies: 87
- Views: 32090
Re: SCA2 questions
Apparently, optional categories don't play well coming before non-optional categories in the environment part. Use the following code with the sample to see what happens. T=ptcbdg V/V²/_(T)Tu VT/\\/_(T)u u//TV_ If the code is used as is, you will get fco, jco, and scendo; if you switch (T) and T, so...
- Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:53 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: How did you do it?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4448
Re: How did you do it?
Didn't you also change parts of Verdurian (and its sisters and cousins) to better derive from Cadinor and Proto-eastern, Zompist?
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 7:19 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: ConlangDictionary 0.3 - now phonology parsing is faster
- Replies: 355
- Views: 92930
Re: ConlangDictionary - I ATEN'T DEAD
Awesome! Thanks for the update.