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by qiihoskeh
Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:41 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kobashti?
Replies: 6
Views: 2457

Re: Kobashti?

The /h/ seems to appear only in these particular locational verbs. My issue with listing it is that it never actually appears as an -h-; it always assimilates. Anyways, I've been working on the lexicon, especially scalar verbs (a subset of static verbs used instead of adjectives). They each have the...
by qiihoskeh
Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:07 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kobashti?
Replies: 6
Views: 2457

Re: Kobashti?

That does answer my main question. There is also the question about how to list the parts. For souva, e.g., are the parts so- and hva? or soh- and va? or what?
by qiihoskeh
Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:18 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kobashti?
Replies: 6
Views: 2457

Re: Kobashti?

Now I have some specific questions. First: The 4 oblique cases -te, -va, -mi, and -se are derived from verbs. They also appear with some non-personal pronoun roots prefixed (all CV). In these, there's an /h/ of unknown origin between the pronoun and the verb. /h/ assimilates to some following conson...
by qiihoskeh
Thu Jun 23, 2016 7:35 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Kobashti?
Replies: 6
Views: 2457

Kobashti?

I've been working on something that might or might not be called Kobashti (project named Jun04). The syntax is mostly developed although not well documented. It needs a conculture, before I can add good examples. The phonology and morphology are far enough along to ask for comments; I'm concerned ab...
by qiihoskeh
Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:21 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448297

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

Melissa Frazier takes another approach: she uses modern phonological theories to explain the Schindler classification. Her thesis is nigh unreadable for me, as I lack the phonological basis to understand it, so I can't judge this writing in its value: http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/819-0406/819-FRAZI...
by qiihoskeh
Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448297

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

KathAveara wrote:Yeah, I've seen that. I'm not convinced his conclusions are worth much.
Why is that? I think he had a point about the current standard paradigms not matching the data.
by qiihoskeh
Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:25 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 448297

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

Has anyone seen Kiparsky's "Compositional vs. Paradigmatic Approaches to Accent and Ablaut."? It's at
http://web.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/Paper ... ed.new.pdf

One of his conclusions is that the proterokinetic type doesn't exist.
by qiihoskeh
Fri Nov 07, 2014 4:36 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.
Replies: 16
Views: 7705

Re: Need PIE conjugation and declension tables for conlang.

Googling for goatman PIE just brings up recipes for goat pie.
by qiihoskeh
Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:55 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Non-Tolkienian fantasy
Replies: 61
Views: 18782

Re: Non-Tolkienian fantasy

I read mainly SF, but one fantasy novel that comes to mind is Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. It takes place at a college in the 1970's, despite the main plot being taken from a Scottish ballad. It's definitely un-Tolkienian.
by qiihoskeh
Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:36 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
Replies: 55
Views: 15478

Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread

Here's yet another idea. This is probably not very clear .... For each argument of the verb, the verb's argument structure class specifies the possible genders as well as the semantic role. There are 4 genders: animate, inanimate, location, and cause. Each noun has an implicit gender (excluding caus...
by qiihoskeh
Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:40 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
Replies: 55
Views: 15478

Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread

I don't remember seeing this particular variation before. In Jan13 , a clause may have more than one predicate, for example, an action predicate and a result predicate. The tense (past, present, or future) may be marked on any predicate, the choice determining the aspect. If marked on an action pred...
by qiihoskeh
Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:55 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
Replies: 55
Views: 15478

Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread

Jan03 is oriented toward changes of state and the entities that undergo the change. Because of this, resultatives usually are the main predicate, with the action causing the result being secondary. There are 2 main classes with regard to argument structure: univalent, whose argument is an unmarked p...
by qiihoskeh
Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:16 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Baranxe'i Script
Replies: 14
Views: 4458

Re: Baranxe'i Script

You have an apparent error in your 1st post. In the independent row and long o column, it looks like you've repeated the long i instead.
by qiihoskeh
Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: The Miniature Conlangs Thread
Replies: 55
Views: 15478

Re: The Miniature Conlangs Thread

I was thinking about making one of my conlangs get rid of prepositional phrases completely. What I was thinking of having take over the function of preposition is a series of locational verbs and relative clauses. Thoughts? Questions? I've used variations of that idea for several conlangs. What I a...
by qiihoskeh
Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:36 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: new 9 phoneme challenge
Replies: 22
Views: 7069

Re: new 9 phoneme challenge

Hallow XIII wrote:Are suprasegmentals allowed?
Yes.
by qiihoskeh
Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:22 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: new 9 phoneme challenge
Replies: 22
Views: 7069

Re: new 9 phoneme challenge

The sketches posted so far are all intersting. I'm afraid I got carried away with my own sketch, so I will only post parts of it. j, w, ʁ > i, u, ɑ / __ (p, t, k, n, h, #) j, w, ʁ > i, u, ɑ / __ (j, w, ʁ) p, t, k > b, d, g / (V, n) __ (V, j, w, ʁ) ph, th, kh > f, s, χ hf, hs, hχ > f:, s:, χ: hp, ht,...
by qiihoskeh
Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:42 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: new 9 phoneme challenge
Replies: 22
Views: 7069

new 9 phoneme challenge

The idea is to create a (sketch of a) language or protolanguage using only these 9 phonemes (before any sound changes). < p t k > - MOA not specified < n > - POA not specified < h > - but possibly some oral friction < r > - voiced uvular fricative or approximant < j w > - < e > - vowel, such as schwa
by qiihoskeh
Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:20 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VII
Replies: 47
Views: 10780

Re: Conlingual Telephone VII

While we're waiting for the full results, here's an intermediate version: When action began, things exceeding darkness were missing; there was nothing. However, the god Aigau gave the world light. A river of lava flowed going to the middle of the sky, creating the sun. The sun rose and it fell -- th...
by qiihoskeh
Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:50 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VII
Replies: 47
Views: 10780

Re: Conlingual Telephone VII

I've passed the Jan12 torch to cedh audmanh and sent the complete translations to Poplar.
by qiihoskeh
Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:19 am
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VII
Replies: 47
Views: 10780

Re: Conlingual Telephone VII

torch received
by qiihoskeh
Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:27 pm
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VII
Replies: 47
Views: 10780

Re: Conlingual Telephone VII

I'm available to participate after the 18th, probably with either one of my new languages (Jan12 -- it doesn't have a name yet) or Naisek.
by qiihoskeh
Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Proximate/Obviative question
Replies: 5
Views: 2325

Re: Proximate/Obviative question

Algonquian languages in general have proximative-obviative marking on verbs and other things.
by qiihoskeh
Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:00 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
Replies: 77
Views: 30982

Re: Conlingual Telephone VI

It seems that my Naisek grammatical notes weren't as good as I thought! Incidently, wof him xalmem Piyanum should have been hipe xalmepe Piyampe using the instrumental case for the inanimate agent instead of "from" + genitive.
by qiihoskeh
Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:20 pm
Forum: C&C Archive
Topic: Conlingual Telephone VI
Replies: 77
Views: 30982

Re: Conlingual Telephone VI

The requisite pm's have been sent. I hope I caught all the Naisek grammar errors.
by qiihoskeh
Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:01 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What PIE apparently used gender for
Replies: 1
Views: 1057

Re: What PIE apparently used gender for

I can't answer the question, but the list seems incomplete to me.

BTW in -is and -os, does the s represent the nominative singular ending (marking gender) or is it part of the stem? If the latter, then the list probably isn't reliable.