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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4289
"Experiencer"
I have spotted a terminological mistake in the grammars of Old Skourene and Tžuro, which has misled other conlangers. In these grammars, the word experiencer is used to mean 'intransitive subject'. This, however, is not how it is used in linguistics. Rather, it refers to a semantic role that denotes...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Cultural minorities in Eretald
- Replies: 4
- Views: 355
Re: Cultural minorities in Eretald
This discussion reminds me of my own conworld, Atla , where my current diachronic conlangs are set. Atla (Old Albic 'World') is a version of the consensus reality with some extra languages. The idea is that some of the "secret languages" of traditional subcultures (such as travelling showm...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I think "areal kingdoms" in the vein of floristic kingdoms would include: Australia Mainland SEA, including South China Insular SEA Eastern Siberia and Nearctic Western Siberia, Europe, South and Southwest Asia, North Africa Subsaharan Africa Eastern South America Western South America Ea...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3720
- Views: 449991
Re: Random Thread
It is. AFAIK, it is used to improve the capacity of the soil to absorb moisture.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
But then, linguistic relationship doesn't go d'accord with genetic relationship often enough. Consider the case of the genetics of English in North America... Yes. Genetics allows to trace ancient migrations and population mixings, but tells us nothing about the languages. Language shifts are commo...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
My idea is that the population from south of the Caucasus that contributed to the PIE-speaking population (as the geneticists have found out) spoke a language related to Semitic, while the other population with Siberian roots spoke a language related to Uralic, and more distantly to the other Mitian...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Apparently, a scholar named Rasmus Bjørn has proposed that the Neolithic farmers of Southeastern Europe spoke a language related to Semitic, but I can't say anything about that because the paper is behind a paywall. Myself, I have recently developed the idea that there was a Semitic-related substrat...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Being a linguist on the Internet is a Sisyphean task. When I was active on Reddit I got into it once with some guys on r/Conservative because they rejected the concept of AAVE. There was one guy (from Texas per his flair) who kept insisting that languages from the Amazon were inferior because you c...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Maybe pruning?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 12008
Re: Maybe pruning?
Yes, I had it about five hours ago.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1208
- Views: 715865
Re: Happy things thread!
My congratulations to both of you, @Man in Space and @Raphael!
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A note on the Voynich Manuscript
- Replies: 3
- Views: 346
A note on the Voynich Manuscript
I have spent some thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript (VMS) which I wish to share with you. I think I need not tell you what the VMS is, should you have not heard of it yet, see Wikipedia . Nobody has managed to decipher it yet. The many illustrations in the VMS give a hint at the content matter, whi...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
That looks pretty reasonable to me.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Did Latin go extinct, or did it become the various Romance language? And if it's the former, how many other languages should be counted as extinct, despite having surviving modern varieties? Lol, I was about to write almost the exact same when reading abahot's post :). For me, the answer would be t...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
But do we measure diversity by the "stock" or by the language? Is an area less diverse when it's languages have diverged, say, 4000 years ago but there's 100 languages now, than the same area that has 10 languages that diverged over 6000 years ago? Good point. Of course, 100 languages div...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4677
- Views: 2058441
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I am no expert on this, but I did spend some thought on the linguistic diversity of prehistoric Europe. In precolonial North America, which is perhaps best comparable to Mesolithic Europe, linguistic diversity (which is perhaps better measured in number of stocks , by which I mean language families ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027441
Re: Venting thread
By now, I see this in a cooler way. There are problems with the job, but there may be a way to solve them. On Tuesday, I have a meeting with my superior and my social advisor, and perhaps we'll find a way to carry on. I want to keep this job, and I am very confident that my superior wants to keep m...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027441
Re: Venting thread
That really does suck. By now, I see this in a cooler way. There are problems with the job, but there may be a way to solve them. On Tuesday, I have a meeting with my superior and my social advisor, and perhaps we'll find a way to carry on. I want to keep this job, and I am very confident that my s...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:40 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 897
- Views: 1082823
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
All that being said, what are people's thoughts on the stop system of PIE? Personally, I think it's likely that the glottalic viewpoint was true at some point in pre-Proto-Indo-European history (which would account for things like the absence of *b), but then evolved into the traditionally reconstr...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:43 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 897
- Views: 1082823
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
In my personal opinion, the "typological universals" are distributions of various stop consonants does not really have as much bearing on PIE phonology as people tend to assume. Such "universals" are found to be false all the time (like Northwest Mekeo and the idea of all langua...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027441
Re: Venting thread
My new job, barely started, has already turned sour. The archive I have been asked to took after has turned out to be a terrible mess which requires years of work that goes far beyond my qualification. I am simply the wrong man for it. Ugh, that sucks. That really does suck. By now, I see this in a...