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Many Germanic languages form 'equipped with X' (with regards to limbs, and sometimes other nouns) using passive participle forms on the nouns, e.g. 'gray-haired', 'hook-nosed', 'left-handed', 'peg-legged'). These aren't true participial forms but formations with an etymological distinct suffix. The...

Many Germanic languages form 'equipped with X' (with regards to limbs, and sometimes other nouns) using passive participle forms on the nouns, e.g. 'gray-haired', 'hook-nosed', 'left-handed', 'peg-legged'). These aren't true participial forms but formations with an etymological distinct suffix. The...

Many Germanic languages form 'equipped with X' (with regards to limbs, and sometimes other nouns) using passive participle forms on the nouns, e.g. 'gray-haired', 'hook-nosed', 'left-handed', 'peg-legged'). Does anyone here know of other uses of participle morphology with other word classes to deriv...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:40 pm Bryatesle is miekko's. qatama... is that masako's?

The script and font was actually masako's/khang's making, the language itself being mine. (It's still under development.)

Bryatesle is miekko's. qatama... is that masako's? It's been so long I don't even know if most of the people are still here... but I do remember the name miekko. [] fwiw Miekko still posts here: http://miniatureconlangs.blogspot.com/ I assume it's the same Miekko I can confirm that it is indeed the...

I don't know what the name is, but ASL is very close to this. You do have 'I' and 'you', but you can have as many third person pronouns as you like, by pointing to a position in the conceptual space in front of you. It's not numerical, but presumably people referred to early in the conversation get...

For the opposite - an even more restricted presence of congruence in the verb system, Swedish (and probably the other scandos) has gender congruence only in the analytic passive, where the synthetic passive lacks it, so: bilen såldes : the car was sold bilen blev såld : the car was sold huset såldes...

You find some strong verbs in Swedish have alternations between /g/ and /j/, e.g. gå - gick (where ''gå' has /g/ as onset and gick' has /j/ as onset) ge - gav (where 'ge' has /j/ and 'gav' has /g/) skära - skar ('cut') likewise alternates between S and sk (and Swedes from Sweden of course have some ...