Zompist Bboard Again

The usual explanation is that it's a fully phonological process where a final -s on one word in a clause like *wĺ̥kʷoms péḱyonti "they are looking at the wolves" bleeds over to the start of the following word ( *wĺ̥kʷoms spéḱyonti ). It may also have happened the other way round in some c...

Does it read to you that way because of the aggressive language the author takes recourse to? Yes, precisely. AMR is an acquired taste - I've read several of his papers over the last couple of years, and he often makes good arguments. You just need to read past those "everyone is out there to ...

I was thinking of those with further(?) derivation via -skij , though now I'm looking for examples I can't find much. You mean names like Berezovskij, Dzerzhinskij , etc.? Those are quite frequent, although some of them are actually of Belarussian or Polish origin (like Dzerzhinskij ). But even thi...

Russian has a morphological formation peculiar to names, the personal adjective. You mean the possessive adjectives in -ov and -in ? Those can also be formed from proper nouns, even though that's less frequent (in my experience, -ov is not very productive nowadays anyway, and -in is also rarer than...

Don’t know what the ‘AcI’ is, but not really like the absolute ablative: rather, which case is used for the arguments of the non-finite verb itself. For participles, the subject or a participle construction is in whatever case is required by its role in the clause the construction is embedded in; t...

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 12:23 pm

hwhatting wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 11:25 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 6:12 am Non-finite forms: unsure

What are you unsure about here?

Which constructions exist, which cases are used with them, and the extent to which they matter.

You mean things like the AcI or the absolute ablative?

[*] After prepositions : either the accusative or the ablative is licensed by the preposition, but never the nominative. There are also prepositions requiring the genitive and dative, just for completeness - this doesn't affect the point you want to make. [*] Topicalisation : not sure, but word ord...

and comparisons to Latin just reinforced that, as I knew it was a liturgical language, but I also knew that, in most books that were written in Europe had at the very least their titles in Latin. But Latin still had to be learned, often together with reading. okay, but thats true of any language th...

(The Romans tended to be more ruthless when it came to the north in general; between that, Caesar and their systematic persecution of druidic practice I think "murder bordering on genocide" is a fair summary.) That's not what I took away from reading BG; as much as I respect Brett Deverau...

It also supplanted the continental Celtic languages for a very different reason (murder bordering on genocide) What is your source for this? There was violent conquest, but systematic extermination*)??? All accounts of e.g. Gaulish I've read speak of a survival of the language at least partially in...

You omitted the English sentence. To's ta warra toyais colunais nómunatais "seftun func", pa fú frúgita warraifis pró parfortiai cér protar. that-N.SG.NOM be-3SG.PRES.ACT.CLIT ART-N.PL.NOM word-PL.NOM ART-F.SG.GEN column-SG.GEN call-PRTC.PAST.PASS.F.SG.GEN seven kill-IMPV.2SG, REL-N.PL.NO...

The only reason why Finnic languages are treated as having a large number of cases rather than a smaller number of cases and a large number of postpositions is that adjectives agree with their nouns with regard to case, incorporating such endings, presumably under IE influence. It's not the only re...

Might the paper in question be Fenwick (2016) ? That's an interesting paper, thank you! Indeed that's it! Regarding the Kartvelian form, it's discussed in another paper by the same author . My thanks to Ketsuban and Zju as well. It's funny that Fenwick's ideas are partially close to what Taskubilos...

Re Low German: What you have in Germany are regiolects. The South is different, but in the North they are not based on the old dialects, but on the Standard, they only take over some features from the dialects, like intonation / accent, and some regional words. People normally don't feel constrained...

hmmm...offhand, I'd guess that a word ( proto-Hal l, basically) was picked up from the substrate and, modified into Hall- by the Germanic speakers, who spread it throughout what was the Germanic-speaking world. Little nitpick, it isn't even Germanic, it's purely the German (= High & Low German,...

If time travel were possible without requiring causality loops, how was Hitler never assassinated by a time traveler? One potential explanation is raised here - that the world as it exists actually is the best of all possible worlds... say in every timeline without Hitler we get Uber-Nazis or somet...

masako wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:14 pm A recent review of some translation exercises reveled some fairly gaping holes in the Kala lexicon.

I get you. The fluency thread today gave me reason to decide on the Tautisca word for "head" after dithering for years on what root to base it.

Mi finis don cata 6 a Obit Ya, "Ota Skilat ina Faya". Yu me luk im de ya . I finished chapter 6 of the Hobbit, "Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire". You can see it here . Hú! Fa yaic fex hefuluncas parfortai? To's parpulun wargun. wow! INT already six chapter-PL.ACC translate-2...

Trivial note: a few days ago, I noticed that the word "laboratory" contains the names of both of the major British parties (yes, I know about the missing "u"), and now I can't unsee that. That somehow reminded me of how, when I was a pre-teen and didn't know much English yet, I ...

linguistcat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm I'm trying to figure out how cat spirits might speak a variation of Middle Chinese.

How could cat-like spirits speak any language but Miao?