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by willm
Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:32 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Some notes on Laqar
Replies: 70
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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...
by willm
Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:13 pm
Forum: Conlangery
Topic: Romanization Challenge Thread v2.0
Replies: 969
Views: 477543

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...
by willm
Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:15 pm
Forum: Languages
Topic: Active vs stative verbs in Classical Chinese
Replies: 3
Views: 4903

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...