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by tron cat
Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:26 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 314456

Hittite, Sumerian, Akkadian http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/cuneiform.languages/index_en.php?page=accueil Sumerian is the shit. especially the german wikipedia article on it http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerische_Sprache The English article, on the other hand, really sucks. I wish I could verstehe D...
by tron cat
Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:59 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 314456

by tron cat
Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:48 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Polysynthetic Conlang
Replies: 638
Views: 260704

I had a play around with polysyntheticism today. I have a little softcover grammar of an obscure polynesian lang called "Big Nambas" (which, humorously, appears to mean "big penis-pouch".. incidentally, there is also a Little Nambas language) that I found in the university library. It inspired me to...
by tron cat
Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:06 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 131203

Re: Morphosyntactic alignment

Sander wrote:I'm not sure about this, but I think I even read about a language which groups A with P and marks S differently. Which is pretty damn crazy.
See my thread with identical title in L&L :mrgreen:
by tron cat
Sat Jul 01, 2006 5:50 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Serial Verbs and Clause Chains
Replies: 23
Views: 18286

Funny. I just got a book out on this very topic - "Syntax of Serial Verbs". Reading it right now.