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- Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Some notes on Laqar
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Re: Some notes on Laqar
One problem is that even if I did not massively reanalyze Laqar's morphology but only turned it into discrete declensions and conjugations, I would still need to keep tables of all the possible forms for each declension or conjugation, which is easier said than done (note how large the tables for t...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
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Re: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
I ignored /ʔ/, but it could be written as <x>. An apostrophe marks ambiguous syllable boundaries. Diacritics are only written on the first in a series of vowels. Initials: /pʰ p ⁿb tʰ t ⁿd tsʰ ts ⁿdz tʃʰ tʃ ⁿdʒ kʰ k ⁿg/ <ph p b th t d ch c dz qh q j kh k g> /s ɬ ʃ h/ <s lh sh h> /v l z ʒ ɣ/ <v l z z...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Active vs stative verbs in Classical Chinese
- Replies: 3
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Re: Active vs stative verbs in Classical Chinese
This is mostly based on Edwin G. Pulleyblank’s Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. To some extent they were distinguished by derivational affixes; Pulleyblank mentions reconstructed *-n for imperfect/durative and *-t for perfective/punctual, though this was probably no longer productive by the Cla...