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- Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:07 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Complete Salish Conference Precedings Free Online
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1440
Complete Salish Conference Precedings Free Online
Just read this on Linguist List, I think some people here would be interested: University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics (UBCWPL) would like to announce that the complete set of ICSNL precedings (1967-2012) is now available online free of charge at http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/ic...
- Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:27 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Some questions about Estonian
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2285
Re: Some questions about Estonian
1) Is the Estonian word "just" used in the same way as its English homophone? That is, does it make sense to say something like "See tundub just nagu õunakook" for "This feels just like apple cake"? Or would you rather say "See tundub täpselt nagu õunakook"? Let's put them to a very crude Google fi...
- Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: English swearwords in other languages
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14647
Re: English swearwords in other languages
Might as well bring up the classic 'fack' ('union' or 'slot'), then, and 'facket' (definite form). In Swedish, there's also kant , meaning 'edge', 'corner', 'border'. 'Crust-free' (like a bread) is then kantfri . Another, less common, word is kitt 'cement', 'putty', pronounced approximately like En...
- Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: So I'm learning Tok Pisin (Orait, nau mi lanim Tok Pisin)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3037
Re: So I'm learning Tok Pisin (Orait, nau mi lanim Tok Pisin
Here's some modern, vernacular Tok Pisin, with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRrGDERE3CI
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:52 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6497
Re: H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested
Nice, I was getting worried you hadn't gotten it yet. Thanks Xephyr!
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:31 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The humour of similar-sounding words
- Replies: 104
- Views: 18777
Re: The humour of similar-sounding words
Re: Swedish skjuta (shoot) and sköta (look after, care for). There's the story about a sign saying "Sköts av kyrkogårdsförvaltningen" next to tombstones in a cemetary. This is intended to mean "Looked after by the cemetary administration". (Present tense passive of sköta .) However, sköt- is also th...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6497
Re: H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested
Just 150 pages? Shiiiit, I'll scan that mofo. Send it to me, I'll scan it and upload the PDF for all the world to share. Shiiiiiet, if you truly be willin' to do that, I think I done figured a way to send it to you fo' free. Check yo' PMs! Nuxálk as I believe they prefer to call it now. So it seems...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:45 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Scandinavian/Nordic
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6531
Re: Scandinavian/Nordic
I posted some links to online Scandinavian media here, including Icelandic and Faroese: http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15855 The Swedish equivalent of Klartale: http://8sidor.se/ A good Swedish <-> English online dictionary: http://www.ord.se/ Basic Swe <-> Den <-> Nor Scandinavian onl...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:18 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6497
H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested?
I stumbled upon H.F. Nater's The Bella Coola Language from 1984. Is anyone interested in having it? I could send it by mail and you pay the shipping, but maybe, in these modern times, I should scan it? (I'll have to check if our office scanner has "feed scanning", because I'm not scanning 150 pages ...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "Language & Linguistics in Melanesia" archive online!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1111
"Language & Linguistics in Melanesia" archive online!
From http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2693.html The complete and entire archive of the journal Language and Linguistics in Melanesia (and its predecessor Kivung) is now available online at www.langlxmelanesia.com ! We hope that this invaluable resource will be welcomed by researchers and student...
- Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 352225
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
Catchy 90's Japanese guitar pop, with harmonica! Mr. Children - So let's get truth Twee rock in Japanese : Asobi Seksu - Umi de no jisatsu . (If I'm not mistaken, the title translates to "Seaside suicide".) German cult pop from the 60's, with a priceless video: Drafi Deutscher - Marmor,Stein und Eis...
- Sun May 27, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Polysynthesis for Novices
- Replies: 170
- Views: 187823
Re: Polysynthesis for Novices
Hey Whimemsz, just popping in to say thanks for this thread. Interesting discussions.
- Sun May 27, 2012 5:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 352225
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 9784
Re: Anyone learning rare/endangered languages?
For my PhD I'm learning some Övdalian , a variety of Scandinavian spoken by some 2,000 people in a small, (historically) isolated area of Sweden. It has nasal vowels (all the way from Proto-Norse), 3 gender noun system, verb agreement and other funky things that are not preserved in any other mainla...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Your Native Language
- Replies: 228
- Views: 34545
Re: Your Native Language
+1Chuma wrote:L1: Swedish; a peculiar mix of central Swedish that my mother speaks,
+1Chuma wrote:and Scanian, since that's where I grew up.
+1Chuma wrote:My nominal ancestors were from Bavaria.
Well, wasn't that interesting!
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The glottal stop
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1552
Re: The glottal stop
Inuit violates that, since it has the only permissible final consonants in a word as -q -k -t (and maybe -p, though I cant find a word that ends in it) and no glottal stop. Isn't the [ergative?] suffix something like -up ? Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_grammar#Subjects_2 E.g. Piitaup pali...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:03 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
- Replies: 322
- Views: 55266
Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
After something like 20 years of learning English, I still have problems fitting [θ ð] into running speech. With these becomes "wit deez" etc. I have that problem with [v w], which is pretty embarrassing. I don't have problems with those in normal running speech, but if I try repeating a sentence l...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Devices marking Heads.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1266
Re: Devices marking Heads.
For example the English phrase "the big men's house" - it's ambiguous between meaning a house for big men or a big house for men. I know that OP is asking about syntactical marking, but things like this are often marked with stress or other prosodic features. Bold is stress: The big [ men 's house]...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:18 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
- Replies: 322
- Views: 55266
Re: Sounds That You Can/Can't Pronounce Easily
The back unrounded vowels are tricky. Indeed, I have no problem distinguishing lower back vowels when listening to English, but pronouncing them isolated is hard. After something like 20 years of learning English, I still have problems fitting [θ ð] into running speech. With these becomes "wit deez...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Mekkiko
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2177
Re: Mekkiko
What book? How old? What is the situation in which the spelling Mekkiko is used?Sevly wrote:I read a book recently
- Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Dexis/Demonstrative
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5690
Re: Dexis/Demonstrative
In Heine & Kuteva's The genesis of grammar: a reconstruction there is a very speculative chapter called Early Language , in which they present "Layers of grammatical evolution" (based on earlier discussions in the book). This is their idea of which types of words are the most basic (based on earlier...
- Wed May 13, 2009 11:35 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: A Brief History of Grammar
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14033
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:09 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Tonal interactions and autosegmental analysis
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17232
I did a quick analysis of a sentence in Yoruba (sentence #80 here http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/YOR/yor_word-list_1972_01.html ) The UCLA page lists it as [mo fɛ́ lɔ ɽí ɔmɔ na]. The sentence can be heard as an mp3 (112 kbps mono, 20 kb) here: http://83.233.156.71/linguistics/yoruba.mp3...
- Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:37 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Tonal interactions and autosegmental analysis
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17232
Very good summary! Thanks for taking the time. Because of this drfiting tendency of tones, some languages have tones that float off on to the next word, and even tones that do not belong to any word. They are a morpheme in their own right: In San Miguel El Grande Mixtec of Mexico, some nouns have a ...
- Thu May 17, 2007 9:32 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Link collection: online sound recordings of languages
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21013
Whoa, Galician dialects! http://www.culturagalega.org/pruebas/anosafala/index.php Click the links to the left to the different "bloque"’s, and you will see more links. Sano: Like Zerrakhi said, it’s good to have niched collections, many of the language resource pages online have no sound examples wh...