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How do noun class/gender systems evolve? What starts them off and how do they spread throughout a lexicon? Thanks!

I'm sorry. But, still. Generative linguists.

Dewrad wrote:OK. Have a go at this and get back to me with any questions.

Damn generative linguists with their [+continuant]s and phonemes in brackets.

Naked women.

I know Malayalam, Devanagari, Tamil, Latin and Perso-Arabic, and am familiar with Greek, Cyrillic, Hangul, Katakana, Hiragana, Mongolian, Thai and Hebrew.

How about a grammar of Spanish? Latin American, and more specifically Mexican, Spanish is preferred if such specificities are made. Thanks again, and to sano for the downloads.

Hello all I'm looking for a free (and legal) grammar of Mandarin Chinese on the web, preferably downloadable in PDF format. This should include phonology etc as well as morphology (as little as there is) and syntax. In other words, a full grammar. I would have posted this in the "linguistic resource...

How would I derive a series of pharyngealized (or velarized) labials? Something along the lines of:

p pˤ
b bˤ
m mˤ
ɸ ɸˤ
β w*

*Also, could /w/ have descended from /βˤ/—>/wˤ/—/w/?

Xephyr wrote:You seem like a pretty cool dude. Let's be friends.

Thank you. Though, through the years, I've found people like me more for my Dravidian languages than for my personality.

L1: Malayalam

Family: Malayalam, Kannada, Prakrit, Middle Persian