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- Sat Nov 18, 2017 2:59 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do polite verbs develop?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2613
Re: How do polite verbs develop?
Thank you for all of these! I will see if I can find the book.
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 2:31 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Some big ol' maps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4851
Re: Some big ol' maps
I don't know why, but my favourites out of these are the Kebri ones. Maybe it's just that they are easy to read, I'm not sure.
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14630
Re: Cadhinorian Religion
I've noticed that the Practical Course makes a few references to worshipping Enäron, which I think might be incongruous with the description of modern religion. I think there might also need to be some updates to the Lexicon, but I haven't checked in detail for what those might be.
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 1:02 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: How do polite verbs develop?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2613
How do polite verbs develop?
I am curious about the development of special "polite" verbs - for example, the situation where the correct choice of the form for "eat" depends on whether I am speaking formally or informally. Obviously there are morphological markers that some languages use to indicate that a verb is being marked ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:28 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Real world" similarities?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4826
Re: "Real world" similarities?
Rather than start a new thread, I thought I would put my question about the calendar to the end of this one.
Do the kasteni have a day of the week? If not, does that then mean that every date has either a fixed day of the week, or an incomplete list of possible days?
Do the kasteni have a day of the week? If not, does that then mean that every date has either a fixed day of the week, or an incomplete list of possible days?
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Masculine-feminine gender systems beyond IE
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3666
Re: Masculine-feminine gender systems beyond IE
Some Australian aboriginal langtuages have gender, but I dont know if there are any that have just a binary masculine/feminine gender setup. Kala Lagaw Ya is an example of one. There's lots to say about gender systems in Australian language. Here I'll just note a few things. Many languages have a f...
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:46 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Dhekhnami questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9308
Re: Dhekhnami questions
How are reflexives handled in Dhekhnami (or Munkhâshi)? If they are explained in the grammars I must have missed them.
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cadhinorian Religion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14630
Re: Cadhinorian Religion
I'm really excited about this. It makes the religion/culture more cohesive, and fleshes out some of the details. In particular I like the way Boďneay's character comes through in the stories about Kolleva. I think my favourite illustration is of Išira, who does seem to have something of Margaret Dum...
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Do the Almean moons ever eclipse each other? I assume solar eclipses are not as dramatic as on Earth because Enomai wouldn't be entirely obscured by any of the moons.
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A quick intro to Classical Music
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15501
Re: A quick intro to Classical Music
I was kind of hoping this would be a link to Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:17 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6914
Re: Zompist
A big fan of this Australian women's shoe store.
- Sat May 13, 2017 7:07 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Count to ten in your conlangs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9960
Re: Count to ten in your conlangs
I just finished Sanendapic's numbers last night, so I thought I would post them here. All numbers take the appropriate nominal class agreement prefix (not shown here). 1 -tigwa 2 -nyedji 3 -d.urre 4 -maldu 5 -ngwantigwa 6 -ngwannyedji 7 -ngwand.urre 8 -djerabang 9 -making temtigwa 10 -making tebnyed...
- Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Minimizing the noun-verb distinction? [split from Random Thread]
- Replies: 67
- Views: 20646
Re: Random Thread
You should also, I think, worry about the language development view. How does a child learn these words? Does it learn the verb 'to mother' first, and only later encounter 'a mother'? That seems very unlikely! It's going to learn a word X which refers to its mother. The natural supposition is that ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2016 3:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Unusual verbal person-marking systems
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6798
Re: Unusual verbal person-marking systems
Gurr-goni does this (and Russian does in the past tense as well)Nachtuil wrote:Does any language conjugate verbs for subject noun class?
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Unusual verbal person-marking systems
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6798
Re: Unusual verbal person-marking systems
Gurr-goni has a very intricate system of personal marking that's hard to summarise. Basically, the number distinction can be seen as distinguishing between "minimal", "unit-augmented" and "augmented", where "minimal" is the base number, and then you add +1 for unit-augmented, and more than that for ...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Typology and numbers question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2606
Typology and numbers question
I know that there are typological correlations with head-directionality: for example, head-final languages often tend to be dependent-marking and mark case on NPs, whereas head-initial languages can often be head-marking and rely on verb agreement. I remember reading somewhere that number systems ca...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 7:21 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: New languages
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10809
Re: New languages
Personally if there's a new Eastern language I'd like to see, it's probably Sarroc. I like the idea of it being close to Verdurian but also separate from it...
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:15 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Dhekhnami questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9308
Re: Dhekhnami questions
Po zombeth ghyiruth pwashino?
- Sun Oct 02, 2016 5:50 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Dhekhnami questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9308
Dhekhnami questions
I thought I would start a new thread for these. I wasn't sure if there was a better place for them to go. It's not spelled out explicitly, but based on the examples I assume that plurality is compulsory in Dhekhnami (and Munkhashi), so a phrase like techêdhnadzu kash is the only acceptable form (jus...
- Sat Oct 01, 2016 6:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Basic distinctions: No word for "eat"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4289
Basic distinctions: No word for "eat"
This is an interesting paper that claims the Maniq language (Austronesian) has no basic verb that translates "to eat"; rather there are several specific verbs depending on the foodstuff being consumed: hãw (eg. rice) kap (eg. animal flesh) lɨk (eg. mangoes) Something that occurs to me is that when ...
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 5:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pama-Nyungan origin hypothesis
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8171
Re: Pama-Nyungan origin hypothesis
I would say thats a valid lay pronunciation, like e.g. the way my high school textbook taught us to say "ung GOH din deep EM" for Ngo Dinh Diem. I just don't think initial <n>+<y> sequences are illegal in English - should be straightforward enough to put one in there without an epenthetic vowel, I ...
- Sat Sep 24, 2016 3:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Pama-Nyungan origin hypothesis
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8171
Re: Pama-Nyungan origin hypothesis
Cool article. Bit of a shame that their pronunciation guide for "Pama-Nyungan" was wrong though!
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:24 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Zero copula outside of present tense
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4560
Re: Zero copula outside of present tense
Another option would be verbs like "John stand doctor" for animates, or "John sit doctor" for inanimates etc.
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 5:20 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Minorities in Verduria
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4348
Minorities in Verduria
We know that pagans and Eledhi coexist in Verduria, but what about other minorities? I imagine in a community-minded culture it would be hard to follow one's own religion in isolation, you would need a social network. Are there any worshippers of Gelálh around? I assume they would have to do so in s...
- Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:31 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Poetic words for "sky" and "sea"
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9914
Re: Poetic words for "sky" and "sea"
For the sea, there's also the old expression "the main", literally meaning "strength". As in Tennyson, "and the little Revenge herself went down in the island crags / to be lost evermore in the main." This is particularly famous in the fixed expression, "the azure main", a quote from Thomson's "Rul...