Well, long time, no see, folks. This may be my first update in over three years, but I've been working on Gomain plenty in that time. In fact, I made a couple of significant changes recently, which prompted me to prepare a new edition of the reference grammar:
- Predicate nominals and adjectives work a bit differently now. In particular, predicatives now agree in case with their subject, whether it is the subject of the clause or not. A more thorough discussion with examples is in section 4.2.7 (page 38).
- The Latin orthography has been overhauled to eliminate all digraphs, which there were plenty of for consonants. In so doing, I have sought to use the new diacritics consistently: the cedilla marks fricatives, the háček marks postalveolars, and the circumflex marks voiceless sonorants. As a result, I changed the representation of /ʤ/ from ‹jh› to ‹ǯ›, which has this value in Skolt Sámi. I also adjusted the vowel diacritics so that all irregularly-stressed vowels are now marked with an acute accent.
I've also begun including a Gomain-English dictionary at the end of the grammar. However, I'm in the process of migrating the dictionary to FLEx, which I recently started using for my field methods class. Once I'm finished migrating it, I plan on publishing the improved dictionary on my site using the
Webonary plugin for WordPress, which will let me make the dictionary searchable. That's still a ways off, though, since it's going to take me a while to migrate the whole dictionary to the new format.
The new, combined grammar/dictionary is available
here. I'd appreciate some feedback on the new orthography in particular - anything from aesthetics to readability, and more. If you want a long text to better judge the orthography,
my translation of Romans should suffice. Thanks!
