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Morrígan

[pʰoɹ pʰoɹ pʰoɹ pʰɔɑ] maybe [pʰɔə] I haven't really done an acoustic analysis of the vowel in "paw", so this is rough, but don't assume that it's nearly as strong as you would find in any of the Queens or Island dialects (which seems closer to [oə]; it is, at least, a bigger difference between start...

Morrígan

So, upon further not-terribly-detailed analysis, it seems to be the case that !(abc) = { !abc a!bc ab!c } in which case, I may choose not to support the use of negation on groups !(...), at least not for a while. I have negated terminals working, and just need to attach a dead-state to get negated s...

Morrígan

I think that interpreting !(abc) as ab!c is confusing. If I understand your terminology correctly, then this means: ... Why, for example, should "bbc" not be a match for the pattern !(abc)? !(abc) looks like it should mean "match any three input tokens together don't form the sequence abc". But tha...

Morrígan

Zju wrote:I find using ! as a negation symbol very intuitive.

In the case of (2), I'm fairly certain that !(abc) = ab!c
Do you mean that ab!c will behave as !(abc) or that !(abc) will accept sequences of ab that aren't followed by c?

The latter; unlike other markers, ! is a prefix.

Morrígan

I have very, very little experience working with this kind of software. Could you write an idiot/newb-proof guide/user manual for this SCA? Thanks. I'd definitely like to; the current one is pretty haphazard. What are the opinions of people as to what would be a useful structure? I'm thinking maybe...

Morrígan

I saw this on my tumblr feed too. I suspect this is based on cognate sharing and retention.

Morrígan

Bugfix Release: Download Here (2013.01.06)

Version with new features to follow in a few days, as well as improved documentation.

Morrígan

That's partly the same bug, and partly a new one, so thanks for finding that. I actually got"loxl", but the same code is responsible. I'll release a bug-fix tomorrow, and continue working on the negatives - I realized I was doing it in the wrong way and thought of a much easier way to do it, so that...

Morrígan

I did think at one point that the conditioning factor was that the words in question were unstressed proclitics, but now I'm not so sure: I don't think subject pronouns in Germanic can be analysed this way. And why only some function words: why doesn't it apply to prepositions like "through"? My na...

Morrígan

Also, it'd be nice if you supported curly brackets on the left side of the sound change. Currently it doesn't throw an error, but the results are pretty weird and seemingly random. Yeah, I think right now it's going to interpret them as literals. I might add this functionality, since it's basically...

Morrígan

This was a bug in the initial release that was fixed, but I haven't gotten around to releasing the fixed version. I designed the rule application to avoid loops by moving a pointer along the word - when a rule is applied, it was supposed to jump ahead so that, after "aqa" is changed to "aqna", the ...

Morrígan

also for some reason the simple rule q > qn causes the program to enter in an endless loop or something This was a bug in the initial release that was fixed, but I haven't gotten around to releasing the fixed version. I designed the rule application to avoid loops by moving a pointer along the word...

Morrígan

Much thanks for this useful tool! There is only one thing which I don't know how to do - how to break up one word in two? The reason I want to that is to mark the word class that arises from segment loss, e.g. lorem → lor N, ipsum → ips N, but lore → lor C, ipsu → ips C, where C and N are genders. ...

Morrígan

WeepingElf wrote:
Arnaud wrote:Hittite k is represented by h, as you previously agreed.
Nakh and Hurrian H1s- results in initial affricate ts-
Everything's in its place.

This makes me want to cry

Both have managed to get banned from Nostratic-L, by the way.

Hilarious

Morrígan

I was reading a description online of Proto-Germanic by Lehmann "holders of the glottalic theory face the problem of accounting for a glottalized labio-velar." What do yous think of this? Is this an appropriate argument against the new kids on the block? I don't see why this is that much of a probl...

Morrígan

Nortaneous wrote:
Aurora Rossa wrote:I don't get it. How does America have six billion people?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0

That was incredibly good.

Morrígan

WeepingElf wrote:
Morrígan wrote:Some Books
All I get is a login prompt

Try it now, I may have posted the wrong URL. Otherwise, yeah you might need a gmail account, but I think I posted the wrong link, i.e. I posted the link to my folder, not the link to the public share.

Morrígan

Torco wrote:
Xephyr wrote:Guys. Quote Thread.

Morrígan

I was reading a description online of Proto-Germanic by Lehmann "holders of the glottalic theory face the problem of accounting for a glottalized labio-velar." What do yous think of this? Is this an appropriate argument against the new kids on the block? I don't see why this is that much of a probl...

Morrígan

I really need to make sure that I have some sort of Definitive Collection, since I keep discovering that my files are not all in one place. Some Books Like Dewrad, I first encountered Beekes, and while it was definitely overwhelming, I still found it more informative than Szemerényi. It's good, thou...

Morrígan

Having started to browse the dead-tree copy of NIL that was on my gift heap this year, I've written up some thoughts on PIE *bhag- "share" on my blog . Thought it might interest some of you. Cool read. I say that I've read others positing that bog- in Slavic is a loan from Indo-Iranian. I'm not sur...

Morrígan

You implemented your regular expressions using state machines then? When I wrote HaSC, my implementation of regular expressions was basically via a simple recursive function that walked through a syntax tree of the regular expression matching as it went. The theoretical worst case performance of th...

Morrígan

I found the newer grammar for Batsbi that I was looking for.

Morrígan

As in Khwarshi, those East Caucasian languages which have ejective lateral affricates tend to have pulmonic lateral affricates affricates as well. This definitely seen in many (or most) of the Avar-Andi languages, a Tsezic languages. It's interesting that Khwarshi does have the gap in it's labialize...

Morrígan

I've been working through Mass Effect, in lieu of playing through Dragon Age 2 the squillionth time (I absolutely love that game to teeny tiny bits, for most of the reasons people hate it). I also seem to be back to playing Plants vs Zombies a lot. I've yet to play Dragon Age, though I'll probably ...

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