Zompist Bboard Again

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:44 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:18 pm I was trying to write up something, but in the process I discovered this paper which looks quite comprehensive: https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2157675. It looks like it should answer most of your questions. (I can send you a PDF if you can’t access it.)

I think this resource should be linked to from a “Resources” thread!

elgis wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:40 am I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi. It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I hope can be of use.

sasasha wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:33 am

elgis wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:40 am I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi. It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I hope can be of use.

This is awesome, I love it.

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:22 am I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:20 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:22 am I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "fun" than the average grammar.

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:05 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:20 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:22 am I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "fun" than the average grammar.

Yes, indeed. The author takes every opportunity to sneer at what he calls ‘Grammaric’ writing which uses too much terminology; I don’t think that’s right, but it is certainly true that the average paper is very dryly written.

(From what I can tell, his background seems to be CS rather than linguistics, which may or may not be a factor.)