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- Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Personal pronouns genesis
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8076
Re: Personal pronouns genesis
Yeah, "on" is the regular reflex of "homo", while "homme" is the regular reflex of "hominem". Several French words have two reflex when the nominative reflex differs sufficiently from the accusative one due to stem alternation (generally third declencien nouns): pute/putain, copain/compagnon, sire/s...
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: the Old Granny thread
- Replies: 624
- Views: 192663
Re: the Old Granny thread
Salmoneus > I can fully emphatize with you over the tyrannic oppression you are here being the victim of; it's pretty much like that one time some pretentious asshole whose name I forgot was pestering Xephyr about trying more chocolate, even though Xephyr had repeatedly stated that every single time...
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question about Romance word origins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1929
Re: Question about Romance word origins
Weird sporadic thing happens with initial consonants and voicing in Romance language. Notably, Italian spontaneously turns a number of initial [k] into [g].
- Fri Oct 04, 2013 3:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: How to design a non-European phonology
- Replies: 622
- Views: 170984
Re: How to design a non-European phonology
Well let's see how my current unnamed project fares. 1. Absence of any phonemic POA for stops further back than velar [half mark for only one stop-POA behind velar, or for prominent allophonic stops behind velar] - H 2. Phonemic voicing - ✔ 3. Phonemic voicing only on stops and fricatives - ✔ 4. Voi...
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 4:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What is this writing?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7534
Re: What is this writing?
Because the OP has asked a very simple question and dni isn't the answer and also shut up
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What is this writing?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7534
Re: What is this writing?
Stop talking about dni nobody fucking cares.
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Non-IE auxiliary verbs
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6950
Re: Non-IE auxiliary verbs
Turkish. Gelmek = to come Geliyorsun = you are coming Geleceksin = you will come idin = you were (copula) Geliyordun (< geliyor idin) = you were coming Gelecektin (< gelecek idin) = you will have come/you would be coming In fact many Turkish verbal inflections seem to derive from earlier verbs. The ...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651154
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
<Radius> they finished putting in the new carpet
<Radius> it is beautiful and plush and practically luxurious
<Cev> is it made entirely from walrus pelts?
<Radius> no
<Radius> but it does contain real girl scouts
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 1:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651154
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
He has a high comedic potential, unbeknown to himself.
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
Re: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
I have a couple suggestions to better this thread: lock it and move it to ephemera.
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:41 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
Re: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
Dude, if you're too lazy to come with the argument yourself instead of ponting people into a super vague direction then at the very least be too lazy to type ad hominems. This is better than being too lazy to read a chapter in a fucking book. Seriously are you five? When people tell you your object...
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:09 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
Re: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
Also: a prototypical passive sentence is not "the mouse was eaten by a cat"
It's "the mouse was eaten".
It's "the mouse was eaten".
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21301
Re: Ergative, accusative and Austronesian do not exist?
As a separate category I mean. The difference of Accusative and Ergative languages mainly hinges on the passive and antipassive voices supposedly being 'intransitive Learn what Ergative actually means, and come back. Some tips: 1) Accusative/Ergative has to do with how a language marks the semantic...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Rosa's roses: all in your heads?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5595
Re: Rosa's roses: all in your heads?
This is like the <jeune> vs <jeûne> issue in French. Pretty much all grammars, but many linguists as well, argue that these two words constitute a minimal pair: <jeune> /ʒœn/ (young) vs <jeûne> /ʒøn/ (fasting). And in fact this minimal pair is the *only* minimal pair for a /ø/~/œ/ contrast in French...
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:00 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: CALS vs WALS: Part 2 - Nouns
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4706
Re: CALS vs WALS: Part 2 - Nouns
One area where I expect the eurocentrism of conlangers will dramatically show will be feature 121 (comparative construction) and feature 122 (relativisation on subjects).
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: sources for person & number agreement
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11376
Re: sources for person & number agreement
Rusanov > Unless you cease to sport an avatar that implicitely calls for the removal or extermination of 35+ million non-slavs from the Balkans and Baltic (I am not counting the Balts proper, which I assume are good enough to be slaves, if not slavs) in favor of some hegemonic Russian nightmare, you...
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:17 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: sources for person & number agreement
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11376
Re: sources for person & number agreement
Yes, God forbid we forget that you are a racist fuck.R.Rusanov wrote:I'll say right now that I don't trust someone who loves Finland and the Finns and makes conlangs about them culturally enriching his Slavic brethren to state properly the amount of Finn influence on Russian (which is IRL basically none).
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: sources for person & number agreement
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11376
Re: sources for person & number agreement
Studying a language doesn't give you insight into how it's run. First you rejected claims because those making it weren't native speakers; then you rejected mec's claim because while he is a native speaker, that doesn't make him good at knowing the history of the language. But now that it has been ...
- Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: sources for person & number agreement
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11376
Re: sources for person & number agreement
You're being very stupid now: Mec has studied Church Slavonic and Old Russian, he can read these languages, and the things he mentionned he probably got to witness *first hand*.
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Standard Average Altaic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9691
Re: Standard Average Altaic
It would be interesting though to have a list of features 1) common to the different Altaic languages 2) not shared with other north-asian languages (notably Uralic ones) 3) which are not the most common thing languages do in this case (eg: all Altaic languages use gap constructions for relative cla...
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Standard Average Altaic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9691
Re: Standard Average Altaic
Wow, is counting Japanese and Korean as Altaic already an accepted mainstream linguistic theory? Did I sleep through it? There are different views on what Altaic is: —Not a thing at all. —The macro-altaic hypothesis, which includes Turkic, Mongolian, Tungunsic, Japonic and Korean. —The micro-altaic...
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:17 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Standard Average Altaic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9691
Re: Standard Average Altaic
I'm frankly not sure there's any structure found in all of Turkic, Mongolian, Tungunsic, Japanese and Korean that you won't also find in most of the other language families spoken in northern Asia (Uralic, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yenisean, Nivkh, Ainu)… Notably, the formation of relative clauses by and...