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by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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
by Noriega
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!
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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 ...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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.
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:44 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Your Native Language
Replies: 228
Views: 34545

Re: Your Native Language

Chuma wrote:L1: Swedish; a peculiar mix of central Swedish that my mother speaks,
+1
Chuma wrote:and Scanian, since that's where I grew up.
+1
Chuma wrote:My nominal ancestors were from Bavaria.
+1 :P

Well, wasn't that interesting!
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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]...
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:55 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Mekkiko
Replies: 8
Views: 2177

Re: Mekkiko

Sevly wrote:I read a book recently
What book? How old? What is the situation in which the spelling Mekkiko is used?
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
Wed May 13, 2009 11:35 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: A Brief History of Grammar
Replies: 24
Views: 14033

Thank you for this initiative. I’m just now reading about linguistics in the 19th century (roots, roots, roots!), but so far I’m less familiar with the modern developments.

Can you recommend any books on the history of grammar studying in the 20th century?
by Noriega
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...
by Noriega
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 ...
by Noriega
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...