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Most of them act somewhat like their English counterparts. I mean can one really say "I will must go to the store"? Maybe you think there is a problem with seperating tense and mood? You can't indicate tense with "must" but you can do it with "have to": "I had to ...

Ahzoh wrote: In terms the the language, moods and tenses are on seperate "pillars"

So one can't indicate morphological tense in a non-indicative clause?

Don't have an idea on the romanization from, answer me this: Can the various verb moods in Vrkazikam be combined with the tense system? I don't really get how that would work from the tables.

Interesting, I want to see more!

Ahzoh wrote:

Click wrote:It refers to morphosyntactic alignment in person marking, so pretty much both.

But my language doesn't mark verbs for person, only number, but I still don't know whether to put it neutral or accusative...

Put neutral.

So, this is a bit of a weird request, but I've hit this point at a project of mine where I'm stuck on creating a phoneme inventory that seems...interesting to me. So I've decided to try to move past this point by outsourcing the work and maybe breaking the writers block. So, throw some inventories m...

A lot of work has been done on adverbial placement / ordering cross-linguistically, a lot of it stemming from the work of Guglielmo Cinque. He has a really important book called " Adverbs and Functional Heads ." Here's also a shorter paper by him called " Issues in Adverbial Syntax .&...

You're actually right, I retract my point. I think it would be better to use the term 'non-referential'/'non-specific' though

Non-specific or general nouns are always indefinite. We can see this more easily in English if we use generic singular nouns: I could really go for a mango right now. A bird can't fly if it has no wings. Bring me a pair of brown pants . What about "I play the piano " or " The elephan...

Passed my qualifying exam. Who wants to know some stuff?

I was taught e.g, that TAM usually occurs in these orders: MTA-verb or verb-ATM "Mood" should probably be broken down into (at least) two things: "Clause type" kind of mood, and modal morphemes like desideratives, etc. With that in mind, the most common order is verb-aspect-moda...

Creyeditor wrote:Hooray, your qualifying exam is over

actually, it's on the 10th now...but so close!

Could it happen that genitives agree with the head nouns?

Yes.

The proto-language was a creole. Since then, it has developed into a fully fledged language. I thought creoles are fully-fledged languages, derived from pidgins which aren't quite fully-fledged languages. I thought that creoles were, in effect, "pidgins with native speakers and syntax and gram...

All4Ɇn wrote: Does this sound like a good and/or realistic idea to do or should I stick with cases if I want to include a vocative?

It's fine.

So based on the setting, is this supposed to be a creole/pidgin?

Well, incorporation is usually associated with the semantics of affectedness, as far as I know. Since agents are prototypically low on any scale of affectedness, then that gives us a reason for not expected agents to incorporate. That makes sense, I suppose. But it doesn't really answer the questio...

For Dinka, I'm going off of Coppe van Urk at MIT's work on Dinka agreement and Maasai some presentations I've seen on it, though I think Doris Payne has done a lot of work on Maasai.

No worries, I'm really into Anti-Agreement. Like I said, some kind of large study of anti-agreement effects is going to be my dissertation.

Excellent question. There seems to be a very robust cross-linguistic generalization that it's actually person that's blocked in anti-agreement contexts and not number or gender. The answers out there in the literature on that are not very satisfying (to me). I'm actually planning on working on anti...