Zompist Bboard Again

Well, that's the sharing economy, Japan style.

Der Unterscheid zwischen "toten" und "ausgestorbenen" Sprachen für mich ist , dass "tote" Sprachen hörte nie auf hörten , gesprochen zu werden, im Gegensatz zu "ausgestorbenen" Sprachen. The difference between "dead" and "extinct" language...

Is t irgendjemand auf eine Unterscheidung zwischen "tote n " und "ausgestorbene n " Sprachen gesto ß en? Has anyone encountred a distinction between "dead" and "extinct" languages? To jest raczej rozróżniene w stosowaniu niech w definicji, jak pokazuje przypa...

@Ser: those languages that I know well that have postpositions in more than a couple of exceptios all are relatively strictly head-final, so the word order of Max's examples feels wrong to me in total, not just with regard to the postpositional phrase. So it would indeed be good to see examples from...

Vilike wrote: ↑Thu Jul 12, 2018 11:16 am 2) What's the most interesting place you've ever been to?: the internet

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waudínjin sílijin cho waudín-jin síli-jin cho man-DEF door-DEF LOC "the man at the door" ... waudínjin sílijin waoanyu ba cho waudín-jin síli-jin wao-anyu ba cho man-DEF door-DEF house-1POSS GEN LOC "the man at the door of my house" Seems we posted simultaneously. From my knowle...

Well, German has mainly prepositions, but a few of them can also be used as postpositions ( die Straße entlang "along the road", der Aussicht wegen "for the view"), but as far as I can see, only prepositional phrases can be used as attributes to nouns, and they then follow the no...

Could you give some examples?

Nu tu wargun mai worgí.
PRTC ART-N.SG.ACC work-SG.ACC 1Sg-DAT work-PRES.ACT.1SG
I'm working at my job (or : I'm doing the work assigned to me).

Gracias!

Hi Yiuel, it seems you hadn't posted for ages! Welcome to the new board!

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