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- Tue May 29, 2018 7:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10156
Re: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
Also Sal have you never heard of Psycholinguistics? Or Sociolinguistics? Or Computational Linguistics? Or Language Acquisition Studies? Or Phonetics? Or indeed any field of linguistics outside of phonology, syntax and historical linguistics. If you look outside that little box of abstract theorising...
- Sat May 26, 2018 8:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462191
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I am very skeptical about theories in which the Caucasian languages influenced PIE. These theories always serve to give PIE more of a profile like the Caucasian languages of today. But we don't have a clue what those languages were like more than 5000 years ago. And I don't believe in linguistic re...
- Tue May 15, 2018 7:47 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10156
Re: The Grand Phonological Theory of Everything
Word-level exemplar theory.
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:37 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: deriving conlangs, generally
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8886
Re: deriving conlangs, generally
@Frislander: is the Iroquian language part of Conspiration des poudres? Possibly, though frankly I kinda have no clue what's happening with it, it's kinda hard to place in the family (it's definitely Northern Iroquoian, but apart from that is also kind of its own thing), but I suppose it could be, ...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 8:43 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: deriving conlangs, generally
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8886
Re: deriving conlangs, generally
I tend to go in totally different directions with a priori versus a posteriori . With a priori I tend to start with the daughter and work on the parent either alongside or after I'm creating the daughter. With a posteriori I prefer to read all about the proto-language and the isoglosses found in the...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462191
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
The odds that two languages are genetically related also depend on how much they have in common, and how much the geographical distance is between the places where these languages were spoken. For example, the chances of a relationship between Bantu and Quechua (close to zero) are much lower than b...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:26 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630994
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I do wonder, though, what would the nasals vocalise to? Rhotic will turn into a low vowel, the lateral into a back vowel, but what about the nasals? Nasal vowels? Just /a/? I guess the simple answer is "pretty much anything", I mean just look at the different results of the loss of syllabic resonan...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:40 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Native American survival scenario
- Replies: 288
- Views: 102167
Re: Native American survival scenario
OK, so that Algolang has been rejigged yet again (what a surprise), mainly because I felt the previous incarnation was too close to Crow in a part of the world where such contact effects don't appear to be very strong at all. In some respects it's kind of returned to how it was originally, but at th...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462191
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I mean technically we can't actually know for sure how the Akkadian "emphatics" were pronounced; I've even heard it proposed that they were in fact aspirates developed under Sumerian influence, which would turn the constraint against multiple emphatics in a root into something more like Grassman's L...
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 4:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haida and Na-Dene
- Replies: 161
- Views: 66486
Re: Haida and Na-Dene
I think in this instances we take "older" to mean "first branch to split off from the rest of the family", as in "Anatolian is the oldest branch of Indo-European".
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44930
Re: Classical Composers
I almost did a double take at this in front of my laptop Sal WTF?!?!Salmoneus wrote:the organisation his gayness would supposedly have ‘disgraced’ quite openly at that time had an anthem to the delights of gay anal sex, so it would hardly have been a shocking scandal
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899676
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
http://akana.conlang.org/wiki/Maps_of_AkanaGwynwth wrote:Does there happen to be any maps of the nations of the various time periods?
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899676
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
I agree. Welcome, Gwynwth! Do you have a specific historical scenario for your Isles language in mind? I'm still familiarizing myself with the history of Akana, so not really. What continents are inhabited, and are we restricted to Southern Peilaš, west Tuysáfa, and Zeluzhia? Well no not really, bu...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:50 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Haida and Na-Dene
- Replies: 161
- Views: 66486
Re: Haida and Na-Dene
Well I mean what's to say with the sound subsitutions that they could be inherited from a Proto-Indo-Uralic, but that the system underwent extreme simplification à la Tocharian? (I'm not trying to say your ideas don't have weight, I'd just like some elaboration).
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:42 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 899676
Re: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
There seems to be some server issues with the wiki; I've been logged out and I'm having trouble logging in again, as the login page isn't loading.
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Good syntax books
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16812
Re: Good syntax books
As for Minimalism, I think it's kind of hilarious that the single stupidest bit of X' theory— the huge vertical growth of syntactic trees, crammed with contentless nodes-- has been quietly dropped. Poor students of that era, forced to draw extra nodes because nothing but the elegance of X' demanded...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Good syntax books
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16812
Re: Good syntax books
As for Minimalism, I think it's kind of hilarious that the single stupidest bit of X' theory— the huge vertical growth of syntactic trees, crammed with contentless nodes-- has been quietly dropped. Poor students of that era, forced to draw extra nodes because nothing but the elegance of X' demanded...
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Native American survival scenario
- Replies: 288
- Views: 102167
Re: Native American survival scenario
Maybe Bharuchi then?mèþru wrote:It's the lingua franca, but I think it will only have native speakers in the area around Bharuch and Ahmedabad and maybe also in nearby parts of Rajasthan.
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:39 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Native American survival scenario
- Replies: 288
- Views: 102167
Re: Native American survival scenario
Well if it extends from Sindh to Burma then I'm guessing the main diffusion channel is the Ganges, so maybe Gangali? Also when you say "America is considered a single continent", do you mean the whole of the Americas? And does your classification also mean that the Middle East but not "India" are pa...
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:11 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44930
Re: Classical Composers
To be honest, I don't know the 1905 or Babi-Yar at all. That's a shame, because the 1905 is fairly akin to No. 10, you should definitely have a listen. Babi-Yar though I think I can perhaps excuse, though I'd still say it's a lot more accessible than 14, which is by far the most "out-there" Shostak...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Classical Composers
- Replies: 103
- Views: 44930
Re: Classical Composers
Can I just say I love later Schubert so much, Death and the Maiden in particular, I don't know why but I think it may be to do with how I find something to love in all four movements, which is really rather rare for me with classical pieces (usually I find that I most relate to the opening movement,...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:47 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630994
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I think so, but that would still make the language very unusual, as phonologies with a functional velar-uvular distinction in fricatives are very few and far between. Is this really the case? It's very areal, for sure, but there's a heck of a lot of North American languages in the PNW with this dis...
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:41 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97650
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
Please stop this is the wrong thread we only talk British Politics here, keep this to the Donald Trump's America thread.
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:44 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How should I assign gender to words?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7954
Re: How should I assign gender to words?
Not all verbs will I assign gender to. For example linking verbs like is or looks will not be assigned gender because they are used to link the subject to the action verb or to adjectives and adverbs. OK, firstly verbs don't have "gender", because that is a feature of nouns. They can agree with the...
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630994
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
Where is the lie?Tropylium wrote:new maxim: all discussions of historical phonology eventually degenerate into being about either the PIE stop system or about the English vowel system (and, apparently, sometimes both).