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Two things you ought to know: 1. Perfective and perfect are different things; don't use them interchangingly. Your right. It was a typo, though. 2. There is no present perfective. The event either has happened (past perfective) or not happened yet (future perfective). I meant the morphological Pres...

My conlang, At'ik, has three tenses, i.e. past (-a), present (-0) and future (-nu), and several aspects, e.g. habitual (-0), perfective (-ta) and continuous (-pi). How which different meanings can I give the Present Perfective and Past Perfective? The only one which came into my mind is the remotene...

So I have two moods, imperative and desiderative (and much more). The desiderative however, can also work as an imperative. suatukhpitai literally means 'you're wanting to give it back to me' or it can also mean 'give it back to me', but with a more firm tone. However where should I write about it? ...

So firstly, a complement clause is the clause that is mostly expressed with that in English. For example: I saw, that he slept . Headless relative clauses would be relative clauses but without a head, obviously. Something like the sleeping one though one is used as a dummy head in this case, some ot...

You are aware that you'll never perfectly recreate your mouth's setup when uttering the same phoneme twice? That falls under allophony, even though it may be so fine-graded that it's barely measurable. This is the most important thing to state in response to this thread, I think. Though in fairness...

I read (or heard) somewhere, that languages with great consonantal phonological inventories are less likely to have consonantal allophones, because small variations of a sound can have an different meaning. I think it was a video about the ubykh language. But maybe I misremember. Nevertheless, are l...

How do you pronounce a voiceless /n/([n̊]). Because of analogy, I would think it is pronounced like the unvoiced /w/, just adding /h/, so it sounds like /hw/([ʍ]). So is an [n̊] pronounced something similar like /hn/? The second question is. Does [ɡ̊] (this diacritic means unvoicing) differ in any a...

This is the phonology of my not yet named conlang. Nasals: m n Plain stops : p t k q Breathy stops: bʱ dʱ gʱ ɢʱ Labialized stops: pʷ tʷ kʷ Ejective stops: p' t' k' q' Plain affricatives: ts tθ Breathy affricatives: dzʱ dðʰ Labialized affricatives: tsʷ tθʷ Ejective affricatives: ts' tθ' Plain liguids...

I'm confused as to exactly what you're asking. I'd imagine most if not all natlangs have some way of getting rid of unwanted agents, as well as simply promoting patients, but not all of them do it by passive voice. If you had all of those act as stative verbs I'd imagine it'd be treated as a passiv...