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I'm glad you enjoyed it dunomapuka and Corumayas :) One thing that I hoped is that our discussions and thought that went towards making the presentation would also help the project directly as well. Thinking lots about what has worked and what hasn't should hopefully point us towards what we might b...

What a wonderful poem indeed! You've persuaded me to read it in its entirely, after I finish this post :) As to the OT, this is something I've considered doing on and off for a few years - in fact, the second conlang I ever designed (before I really knew any linguistics beyond what you can infer *fr...

That's how it should work at the moment given that you're a sysop (which you are, right?). skipcaptcha is set to true for sysops and registered bots. For other user groups, captcha is required for all edits and account creation - I could certainly change this to just for account creation, if it'd be...

I have a (semi)working laptop again! Yay for me. As a result, ConfirmEdit has now been installed. I've currently got it set to use QuestyCaptcha with the following questions: Q: "What does ZBB stand for?" A: "Zompist Bulletin Board" Q: "What is conlang short for?" A: "constructed language" Q: "What ...

[um] > [om] > [on] > [on_0] > [ot] > [ots] > [os] But yeah, it's a very large change, as the above suggests something like: u > o / _[+nasal] m > n / _# C > [-voice] / _# [+nasal-voice] > [-nasal-sonorant] t > ts / _# ts > s I don't think there's anything wrong with those steps (please someone shout...

No problem my computer's at the shop at the moment (I'm posting on my phone) but I hope to get it back in the next few days, at which point I'll get on with that.

I'm intending to go to the conference (incidentally, I'm looking for people to car share with, if anyone is or knows someone going from the UK...) and would be happy to help/collaborate on an Akana talk Once I refresh my Akana knowledge after this last long absence, anyway...

Indeed, had you proposed syllabifying it the other way (VC.VC.VC), that would have been really quite unnatural . Languages (with a very small number of debatable exceptions) strongly prefer onsets to codas.

In what sense are the mood, voice, aspect and polarity affixes infixes? They appear to be suffixes to me. A suffix follows the stem (regardless of whether or not it precedes other affixes) - an infix appears inside the stem.

And another update...

Cedh alerted me to the fact that session cookies weren't working so no-one could log in. That's now fixed . The site is still at http://tzirtzi.ipage.com/akana, however.

An update: For various reasons, the transfer is proving more difficult than hoped. I've moved all my other sites, but the Akana wiki has a 148mb mySQL database, and the limit on imports in phpMyAdmin is 10mb. I'm currently waiting for the tech support staff to deal with that for me. But... This morn...

I'm sorry I haven't been around for ages, and I'm afraid this isn't me coming back - I'm at the end of my final undergraduate year, so I'm going to continue to be too busy to spend much thought on conlanging at the very least until the end of my exams. Nevertheless I'm still very happy to keep hosti...

Roughly SSBE plus bade-bad split (that is, three phonemic open unrounded vowels: /a a: A:/) which I understand is a West Country thing (I'm originally from Bristol) and.. basically that's it, apart from some West Country-specific lexis and using <aye> for <yes> a lot. As far as SSBE is the standard,...

I'll recommend you read Robert Mailhammer's The prehistory of European languages . To me, it's interesting because it quotes Villar on the question of the Mesolithic repopulation of Northern anc Central Europe from the SW. Thanks also - I (and perhaps others like myself, reading these threads but w...

In some languages one major noun distinction is masculine vs. feminine, in some it's animate vs. inanimate, and in some it's mass vs. count. My question is: gender and animacy often trigger agreement, whether on the verb or on adjectives. Does anybody know of a natlang where whether a noun is mass ...

Louise Attaque - Du Nord au Sud

I can't understand the French, but for some reason the chorus of this song is in Spanish so I understand that bit ^^

Very interesting stuff - a nicely believably messy development of V2 :). I like your movement of full noun objects to final position in the clause. Might the leapfrogging of the verb and nominal object in dependent clauses be a bit too fast for the timeframe? It seems like the language goes OV -> VO...

Piotr wrote:Ленинград - Меня зовут Шнур

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feP-_ThCtkw

wtf.

I feel there is a lot in that video that I'm not getting .

Nice derivational morphology there :) I particularly like the series of semi-distinct diminutives. My only criticism would be that for realism there should probably be a bit more of graeco-/latin origin, and some more fossilised/dead/unproductive suffixes. These might, of course, be the same thing. ...

Good stuff :) All very interesting. Mine has been developing in the same way in a couple of cases (merger of i-stems into a-stems, for example) but differently in others. Some thoughts~questions I had on reading your chronology: For declensions that originally had distinct nom/acc (e.g. masc/fem wea...

So having read through this thread a couple of times looking for Germanic sound changes (specifically ON>Modern Swedish, Middle Dutch>Modern Dutch, Old Frisian > Modern West Frisian) and failed to find anything I noticed lots of requests for sound changes of various Germanic languages, none of which...

Interesting. It seems like your project is following a similar path to mine (West Saxon started out as "Tecg", a languaged based on the northumbrian/east midlands dialects before I decided to switch it to a West Saxon derivative. Great minds think alike?). If that's the route you're going, then I'l...

Most of the early sound changes were thought to be from the very end of the OE period, and I also allowed for some linguistic "momentum" before I started diverging away from historical changes. I based the chronology on this paper (pdf alert), from this site . TzirTzi, you might find that site help...

Really (based on rereading the first couple of pages of this thread) to celebrate its anniversary we should be returning to its original topics: namely furries and white-sock-fetishes. Thus I challenge the next poster to find a picture of an otter wearing white socks (or "better" still, an otter fur...

dhokarena56 wrote:One of the most special (read: most awesome) music videos ever.

That's just unspeakably weird. More so as I'm in the middle of rereading lotr right now .