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- Thu May 23, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
In the case of English, we see in everyday English a "subjective accusative" in the place of the "subjective genitive" (e.g. "If it weren't for me setting up the firewall this Windows box'd be full of worms by now.") At the very least, there's also the attraction of th...
- Thu May 23, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
We also see the subjective accusative in things like " me and my friends rode around town in my pickup truck removing stop signs". I think that's just an example of the nominative being triggered by an adjacent verb, with fallback to the unmarked accusative when separated. Which only goes...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
We also see the subjective accusative in things like "me and my friends rode around town in my pickup truck removing stop signs".
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
From what can a nominative case suffix or marker develop? Esp. if there were no nominative markers so far and there's few cases to begin with. Maybe a demonstrative or an intensifier? Japanese ga (currently used as a nominative/subject marker, although there's a distinct topic marker wa ) seems to ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
Gawaaziyemam fizaa saxat loohijat. 其れ憎き書道。 「けうれにふきせきぢ。」 Keole nyûki sekiji. [kʰǿ̞ᵝˑ.l̪ʲè̞ ɲýːˑ.c͡çì s̪éˑ.c͡çì. ɲ ʑì] ugly.ADNOMINAL write.system "I think that is an ugly orthography." know (trans.), lig way, method, hanna pretty, iste type, key, kita Taye zon /ɣawaːzijɛmam fizaː saχat loː...
- Thu May 23, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
Ʒe nitt ei sedilʒe for me gaulisc tung, forat stae for the meuk t. I use a cedilla for my Gaulish lang, to represent the lenited *t. At minns me, ʒe ska warke pen at wi noe punt. That reminds me, I should work on it at some point. 其つ語 何ふ声らゆっへ? 「くえついふ えどふくをへらゆっへ?」 Keotsu iyu edō koelayu e? [kʰǿ̞ᵝˑ.t...
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
[kʰǿ̞ᵝˑ.t̪͡s̪ʰʲỳᵝ íˑ.jỳᵝ è. n ðô̞ᵝːˑ kʰʷó̞ᵝˑ.è̞.l̪ʲɐ̞̀.jỳᵝ é̞ˑ] compress, squeeze, loohi sounds (coll.), saxaa all, fiza crazy, gawa Gawaaziyemam fizaa saxat loohijat. crazy-RES-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES-PAT.1.S-INV all-ERG sounds-GEN compress-ADJ.PAT-GEN All those compressed sounds drive me nuts.
- Thu May 23, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
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Re: Conlang fluency thread
Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 7:39 pm Fan çad oa Wêsgermansç sprêç, iç vrât c mydd cedille.
When I had a West Germanic language I used <ç>.
- high, caale
COP-PRES-YESNO language German-GEN high-GEN
Is that a High German language?
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4724
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Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Perhaps from an active-stative system? The trouble is that the scenario is caseless predecessor with a plain old nom-acc alignment. You're not giving yourself much to work with. :) And pure nominative markers are kinda rare. The fact that IE originally had nominative markers in the first place is r...
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2476
- Views: 1484212
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- strange, oha
- less, fewer, gak
would COMP think-AGT.1.S-HAB-NEG COMP COP-PRES ⟨ʒ⟩ strange less exist-ABL yogh
I would not think that ⟨ʒ⟩ is less strange than the yogh.
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064132
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Meine deutschen Vorfahren sprachen wahrscheinlich Platt, da sie aus Pommern stammten.
My German ancestors probably spoke Platt, as they came from Pomerania.
My German ancestors probably spoke Platt, as they came from Pomerania.
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4724
- Views: 2065792
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Perhaps from an active-stative system? I recall that I may have seen such a suggestion for how IE got its -s and -m markers for nominative and accusative.
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
- Replies: 708
- Views: 1064132
Re: Language Practice (Help your fluency)
Ik kann ok öven! Ik heff nich bemerkt, dat de Thread aktualisiert worrn harr. I can practise too! I didn't realise that the thread had been updated. Ik wünsch, ik kunn ümsüns studieren (un Medikamenten ümsüns opschreven warrn, wat dat bedraapt). I wish I could study for nothing (and get prescribed ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang fluency thread
- Replies: 2476
- Views: 1484212
Re: Conlang fluency thread
- problem, teelat
- speak (trans.), laxa
COP-PRES problem ⟨z⟩-GEN COMP speak-INST-AGT.3.P.ANIM-HAB-INV PROX.1.S.INAN people write-NOM.PAT
The problem with ⟨z⟩ is that people spelling-pronounce it.
- Sun May 19, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
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Re: Conlang Random Thread
Can you even be precise about how many registers a language has? I would have thought whether a language has, say, three or four registers is a matter of interpretation. This is especially true of a language like English which does not really have grammaticalized registers. 'snot true. Elipsis of f...
- Sun May 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
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- Views: 2853342
Re: Conlang Random Thread
This is especially true of a language like English which does not really have grammaticalized registers.
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
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Re: Conlang Random Thread
How many distinct registers do you all build into your conlangs? I've done up to three, but most often zero. Martin Joos believed there were five registers in English, but I've never worked out that many for a conlang in any detail. Honestly I haven't really done much of anything with register in m...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
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- Views: 277
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
After all we've tested this with (say) planes and spacecraft, to say nothing of particles circling accelerators: they all go slower from our perspective. We even have tested that the speed of particles affects their decay times. For instance, this is why muons can reach the Earth's surface ─ from o...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
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- Views: 277
Re: A planet that moved around its star at more than 99% the speed of light.
Of course, any physical object aside from an elementary particle at a 0.99c speed in an orbit would not be able to maintain any kind of structural integrity and would rapidly disintegrate as it approached the object it was orbiting around.
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conlang Random Thread
- Replies: 3024
- Views: 2853342
Re: Conlang Random Thread
The idea therefore being that nouns are unmarked when they appear in their expected position, and marked when they appear in a position which contradicts their animacy. The basic idea is really ‘marked vs unmarked’, not ‘ergative vs absolutive’. (You can even merge the accusative and ergative cases...