Zompist Bboard Again

My wife and I are headed to Ireland in 2 weeks for a 2 week vacation. This is a celebration for me turning 50 and finishing grad school. We were planning to go last October, but COVID Delta got in the way. This will be the longest vacation we've ever taken. CAN'T WAIT, but have SO MUCH TO DO!!!!

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 9:11 pm Wait, Iliaqu is inspired by Salishan? I honestly never noticed.

Only in terms of comparison of having "nounless" syntax. It's a main inspiration for Jin.

That one’s not original, I’m sorry to say — Ewe and Lango (amongst others) have the same system. Well, it's new to me. I may have seen such before, but sometimes it takes presentation in a conlang to you sit up and say "oh, that's COOL!" For example, I didn't really appreciate Salishan la...

Good stuff as usual, but I found this particularly tickled my fancy. The use of marked vs non-marked is simple & elegant.

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:24 am The former is marked by simple juxtaposition of the two NPs, while the latter uses an additional particle ngen after the first NP:

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:22 pm I’ll just note that your glosses and sentences have gotten out of sync…

Thanks as always for the editing services. Now fixed (I think!).

Devani: VS / OVS order I would say I'm 98.5% certain I'm using VS / OVS order for the comment portion of Devani sentences. I picture topics working similar to what I understand of Japanese, where a topic can be introduced and following sentences might use non-topic particles to continue commenting....

Good stuff! It feels really natural & very different from English. The vocab & syntax work well together to accomplish that.

I might have had questions about the word order, but since you provided the "non-obvious" warning, it actually is quite obvious when you look for it.

Is that an established use of the term existential ? It seems quite odd to me, as the typical definition of the word is relating to existence or being alive . The main kind of linguistic thing I am used to seeing described as existential is the assertion of something's existence, e.g. "There i...

I'm not sure I understand the difference between "is" in "the dog is brown" and "is" in "the dog is lonely". How is the latter more about existence than the former? Said dog is permanently brown (via fur color) but temporarily lonely. If you used a stative (n...

I suggest this recent paper, Nonverbal Clause Constructions by Martin Haspelmath, which goes into all the permutations of clauses often constructed with copula verbs. What you're proposing is fairly common and covered in the paper a long with a whole host of other constructions. This paper looks ex...

This is basically Spanish ser vs estar , no? Also like Japanese da (formal: desu) vs aru (formal: arimasu) or iru (formal: imasu). Or for that matter Irish is vs tá . A lot of my conlangs have this. Well, since that was correct (and I wasn't too sure!), then yeah, as Travis B. said, it's very natur...

This is basically Spanish ser vs estar, no?

Nonetheless, all languages I’m aware of with ergative word order also have some other form of ergative marking, whether it be case-marking or cross-referencing (or both). Yeah, that's what I was thinking it would be. The simplest options would be to either move the intransitive subject after the ve...

Devani: OVS order = ergativity violation? I mentioned that I was thinking about making Devani's comment portion of a sentence OVS. Now I'm seriously considering it. mechani the mida paramam mechani the mida paramam Regarding the scholar: he is reading. samhain the ne malkusuvam tujari samhani the n...

De Gaulle's idea was that voters can and should be fully trusted to do the right thing. I'd say it makes a lot of sense. If you can't trust the voters, why bother with democracy in the first place? We'll test that interesting theory in two weeks. I'd like to believe that, and I think many people do...

Got through the rest. My only other comment is that I like the generic verb bit (so +rep to vegfarandi as well ). I haven't done a ton of work on the "semantic organization" for my langs yet, so it's compelling to see it in others.

Still reading through when I have time while working, but liking it so far. I have 1 nitpick and 1 correction for you. Labial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m ᵐb n ⁿd ŋ ᵑɡ Voiceless stop p pʰ t tʰ k kʰ ʔ Voiced stop b d Affricate t͡s t͡sʰ t͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ Fricative f s ɬ ɣ h Approximant l j w ...

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:14 am

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:08 pm Fuck it, I'm quoting myself.

You’re not allowed to do that!

In that case, I'll add the quote!

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:00 pm If trainwrecks could dream, their nightmares would be this conlang.

I don't know if any of you are Halo fans, but I'm gonna humble brag. I helped make the conlang that the characters are speaking. I'm pretty proud of it and I hope anyone that check's it out enjoys it. I'm not a Halo fan, but that's fantastic! Got a link to examples and which conlang it is? Is it Sa...

Jin: Adverbs & Results Adverbs As I described in this post and this one , the linker al- can be used to form adjunct phrases. I also showed adverbs, but the suffix -(n)un has been dropped. zhama-hi qam ndalu-wi ja capitu-ma al-miba The man ate the fruit and (he was) quick. The man ate the fruit...