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There are two types of possessive constructions, the possessor first construction and the possessor last construction. In order to form the possessor first construction, the possessor moves from spec,NP to spec,DP. ....In the possessor last construction the possessed N moves up into the D by way of...

Damn it, sorry that's a typo. So should it be "a dog of a man" (-m) vs. "a dog of the man" (-s) or "a dog of the man" (-m) vs. "the dog of the man" (-s)? Oops, now I see the edit. Understood! What's the story about those only occurring in this possessive construction? Also, I may borrow your idea o...

Very cool, I had actually suspected something of this sort when I saw them. Are there verbs that require one of these classifiers? These would most likely be verbs of manipulating, handling, etc. is what I'm thinking. Once again you pretty much hit the nail on the head as verbs that express thought...

si kira paʔ cra-sñaʔ (modern syntax and the incorporated noun has been reduced and generalized) 'I drink milk' Because of their origins these classifiers are much more numerous and different from the regular noun classifiers. The classifier cra- is used for cloudy or opaque liquids and the classifi...

I'm a big fan of this. Got a couple questions: Do the reduced pronouns behave like clitics themselves, if not grammatically than phonologically, at all? Since you've got one that might lack a vowel, might suggest they can. Also, in the couple of sentences that you have the verb seems to be compounde...

This is something I came up with today through a couple classes that I couldn't focus in. It's supposed to be vaguely Meso-American/Zapotecan. The consonant inventory is: p t k kʷ ʔ b d g gʷ s ʂ ʃ x h z ʐ ʒ m n ɲ ŋ l r y w There is a length in vowels, along with a distinction between glottalized (= ...

Whimemsz, this is a mighty effort. I plan on reading through this thoroughly tomorrow, as I am really interested in polysynthesis / complex morphology theoretically in my work and just...this is great. Good job.

I see the Arapaho influence! Actually closer to Gros Ventre, really. What about phonotactics etc. etc.? Basically C(C)V(C) syllables with optional initials at the left edge of a word and a limited number of finals. The possible medial clusters would be: n3 ns ŋx hC xC sb st sk s3 sx Don't know abou...

A small inventory/idea that I'm working on based on Arapaho/some other stuff. This representation is more or less orthographic: 3 = /θ/ and ’ = /ʔ/. A raised (y) indicates that a given phoneme shows contrastive palatalization before a vowel. This is not contrastive elsewhere. The four simple vowels ...

Tek jbuntrauk de jau dua tui nlooayk gnia euuk ptiah koh nek btiaork ler keuuyia. Jbuntrauk haeyt paiyt paeyk nlooayk bia bgaiy keuu beym dreung tkar joot keuuyia ler ot teuk swa ler ot. Yoan tui aajung keuuyia ler ot bio chai pñork dang bio borm gna lobnih sianghooay It would be really cool to see...

Read about the phonological typology of different types of Native American and Caucasian languages.

I cobbled this together in like 4 minutes, so it sucks, I know. I also cannot make Native American/Caucasian inventories to save my life. Is this saying that it's supposed to be one of those inventories but you still posted even though you don't think it's good as imitating either of those categori...

1. Simply using the standard geminate symbol ː would be less confusing, imo. The fact that they aren't really that long phonetically doesn't matter, as you are describing phonemes. I was describing long phonemes that are realized, most of the time, as long phones. I don't know where you got the ide...

Did not intend the double post.

Inventory for a Salishan-style langauge: p t č kʷ q qʷ p' tθ' t' ƛ' č' kʷ' q' qʷ' ʔ θ s ł š xʷ χ χʷ h m n r l y ŋ m n' r' l y' ŋ' i u i· u· e ə e· a a· V· is a long vowel. There are vowel alternations before the uvulars /q qʷ q' qʷ' χ χʷ/ and /r r'/, where Q represents any plain uvular, Qʷ any round...

Well, like Chibi, I speak Afrikaans which isn't necessarily... endangered, but rare. I am also learning Halkomelem which may probably die out anyway, but it's kinda like Nuxálk but with ~a substantial Wikipedia article~. Apart from that, not much else, really. omg isn't halkomelem aamamamamazingggg...

I don't have enough time in a 24 hour period to devote to it Maybe sometime though.

Here's something that is kind of born out of a project I have going on Pawnee, but also out of a desire to resurrect my Hiirawə conlang. This may turn into something like Hiirawə 2.0 Consonants /p t k ʔ c ks s h w ɾ j n/ Vowels /i u a ə i: u: a: e:/ The consonant /c/ is a affricate that is [ts] befo...

What's the syllable structure like?

Bump bump!

A revised inventory for Hiirawə:

Consonants /p t k q ts n w ɾ s h ʔ/
Vowels /i i: u u: a a: ɛ ə/

dhokarena56 wrote: Also, a grammar of Halkomelem. It's a Salishan language. Enjoy.

That's not a grammar...

"That's the kind of thing [that] people would find weird if they saw you doing." Is that bolded bit grammatical for you? It's the first thing my brain came up with, but for some reason it rings false, even though I can't come up with a better way of saying it. I need a pronoun: "That's the kind of ...

äreo wrote:

roninbodhisattva wrote:

äreo wrote:-Whenever is place of when is very common.

As a complementizer, question word, or both?

The former. I hear things like "Remember whenever we skipped school?" or "Whenever you guys were leaving last night, I was still asleep."

That's really spiffy.

äreo wrote:-Whenever is place of when is very common.

As a complementizer, question word, or both?