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Explain why it's the inflected verb that gets the converb marker and not the other way around.

Does anyone know of a language that has diminutive agreement, but that agreement stacks with and doesn't replace regular gender agreement?

Thanks for these examples. It seems that both Maybrat and Abkhaz prohibit adpositions from modifying full noun phrases and thus require the use of resumptive pronouns. Maybe Celtic and Semitic are somewhat atypical in allowing all adpositions to be inflected/conjugated directly? What? Explain this ...

Yes to the first. It occurs in miscellaneous languages.

(1) Maybrat (Dol 1999: 88)
T-ai m-kah ara.
1sg-hit 3sg.n-with stick
‘I hit with a stick.’

(11) Abkhaz (Hewitt 1979: 103)
a. a-jə̀yas a-q’nə̀
def-river 3sg-at
‘at the river’

b. sarà s-q’ənt˚’
I 1sg-from
‘from me’

But not at the same time, so the pattern does exist.
Yoruba also has a variant (if limited in expression) and so it exists again. It's logically possible and attested, even if mariginally. It should suffice for their purposes.

Frislander wrote:I don't know of a language which relies just of the possessed marker and apposing the possessor.

You know I mentioned Fijian right there.

(2) Fijian (Austronesian; Fiji; Dixon 1988: 36)
a.
a mata-i Jone
art eye-poss John
‘John’s eye’

b.
a liga-i ‘eirau
art hand-poss 1du.excl
‘our hand(s)’

I think the construct state counts as this. Typically in Afro-Asiatic, also Fijian has a nonagreeing possessive suffix. Not really a case per se tho.

I would switch ǎ for raising and â for falling because I'm so ingrained to IPA, and not double the diacritic.

A common stag beetle (lucanus capreolus) and eastern Hercules beetle (dynastes tityus). Snapped them both at my local Walmart.
The avatar is the latter.

TWO logographs of specific beetles. An oddly specific day.

BTW application of adjectives like "ergative" to noun-phrases like "word-order" is like using the adjectives "colorless" or "green" to modify the noun "ideas". You're awfully rude for somebody so wrong. Syntactic ergativity is a thing. Could you not...

Iyionaku wrote:It would be kinda fun to adjust the writing system to your new phonology.

It is for the first few times! Then you get to say, "You would think that, but..."

So I wanted a neighbor to SlideWing. For this one I wanted an overt gender system in a VO lang. Yet I didn't want mere gender prefixes on the noun and also didn't want them fused with definiteness markers (which I prefer as suffixes when VO). I also had been toying with prepositions for marking core...

DesEsseintes wrote:Why?
I found a paper by Frellesvig and Whitman which seems to propose a seven-vowel system for pJ...

In short there's only a handful of words to justify the seventh vowel, so it's better to treat those as simply irregular.

No, you want the six-vowel hypothesis.

Just a bunch of coining words, adding to derivation affixes, some numeral formation including a numeral root itself and even a bit of syntax (desideratives). An OK break from verifying yet another batch of tree species within my proximity.

It lists the pronunciation of the descendant as chi. It doesn't list it as being related to shiru.

Bluntly: self-aggrandizing is what.

There we go.

They're both justifiable one way or whatever and I also prefer the first.