Search found 4090 matches
- 29 Feb 2024 14:48
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Go and find him!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9850
Re: Go and find him!
:con: Dlor Ká, be-bék sa! sg2.VOC, ANDAT-find sg3 'Go and find him!' Ka 'you' is the only word that has a special vocative form ká . Dlor has an andative form 'to go and V'. Imperative always demands a vocative "subject", like ká . Bék 'to find' can be used in the imperative. Rábek 'to loo...
- 28 Feb 2024 23:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I don't remember if we have discussed this before.
Which languages have both incorporation and noun classes / genders?
How do they interact? What happens to noun class markers when the noun is incorporated?
Which languages have both incorporation and noun classes / genders?
How do they interact? What happens to noun class markers when the noun is incorporated?
- 28 Feb 2024 10:22
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The undeserving poor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 514
The undeserving poor
I quite from Piketty.
For Giacomo Todeschini, the idea of "the underserving poor" can be traced back to the Middle Ages and perhaps more generally to the end of slavery and forced labor and outright ownership of the poor classes by the wealthy classes.
For Giacomo Todeschini, the idea of "the underserving poor" can be traced back to the Middle Ages and perhaps more generally to the end of slavery and forced labor and outright ownership of the poor classes by the wealthy classes.
- 26 Feb 2024 20:30
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Cat and the Fish.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23294
Re: The Cat and the Fish.
:con: Dlor (still lazy with fully cleaning LaTex) \gll Jö-nwim \\ \textsc{ven}-cat\\ 'There was a cat.'\glt \gll Nín u sín sa. \\ be.small and be.white \textsc{sg3}\\ 'She was small and white.'\glt \gll Sód kwi-s-kòom sa, kü-lem. \\ when.\textsc{anterior} eye-\textsc{middle}-be.open \textsc{sg3} \te...
- 26 Feb 2024 20:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6151
Re: SBäk e Dlor
How to derives verbs 'to be hungry' from 'to eat'? 'to mind-eat' maybe?
- 26 Feb 2024 20:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 744
- Views: 216921
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I at last completed the cat and fish story!
- 24 Feb 2024 11:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6151
Re: SBäk e Dlor
I got stuck with word 'jump' in Cat and fish story.
Most of verb derivation is based on body parts in Dlor. It could well be something like 'leg-jump' but the root would still be the same.
'Leg-fly' maybe?
Most of verb derivation is based on body parts in Dlor. It could well be something like 'leg-jump' but the root would still be the same.
'Leg-fly' maybe?
- 24 Feb 2024 11:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
But I'd also say: bear in mind that Latin hadn't even eliminated its own stress irregularities - there were a whole bunch of words that didn't obey the normal rules and weren't regularised. So expecting immediate regularisation of a whole heap of new irregulars may be unrealistic. I didn't know tha...
- 23 Feb 2024 12:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213568
- 21 Feb 2024 17:21
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6151
Re: SBäk e Dlor
I should go to motion verbs. Something preliminary: Dlor motion verbs code very much. Applicative prepositions do not affect them. They are used like applicatives are used with any verb. Associated motion prefixes behave differently with motion verbs. While jo- usually means 'to came and V', with mo...
- 21 Feb 2024 17:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
But I'd also say: bear in mind that Latin hadn't even eliminated its own stress irregularities - there were a whole bunch of words that didn't obey the normal rules and weren't regularised. So expecting immediate regularisation of a whole heap of new irregulars may be unrealistic. I didn't know tha...
- 21 Feb 2024 16:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How weird would it be for a language with split-ergativity to encode grammatical aspect in the verb, but uses the ergativity split for some other criteria than aspect? Like the split is based on animacy, for instance? Not weird at all. Aspect is just one possible split of a split alignment. I don't...
- 21 Feb 2024 16:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 744
- Views: 216921
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I checked all 42 prefixes and proclitics of Dlor. I haven't been very coherent while making them. Many unintended homonyms appear. ba PREPOSITION 'as' PREPOSITION 'made of' NUMERAL 'four' ma FIELD PREFIX 'with a vehicle' PREPOSITION 'INSTRUMENT' mi DISTRIBUTIVE PLURAL NUMERAL ''three' mo FIELD PREFI...
- 20 Feb 2024 21:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1519
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
In future NE Areyaxi, definiteness is basically a way of saying "I would use anaphora for this but that would be ambiguous." In future Aryayaxi and Orayoxe, the definite article basically means "you know which one I mean (because I mentioned it)," the indefinite article means &q...
- 20 Feb 2024 20:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Now we get to the argument that Vulgar Latin didn't really lose long vowels but the contrast between short and long vowels. I think this is quite much what Salmoneus said. So, the surface form and underlying form/rule cannot change simultaneously. Either what Greyeditor suggested 1) Surface form ch...
- 20 Feb 2024 17:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1519
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
In future NE Areyaxi, definiteness is basically a way of saying "I would use anaphora for this but that would be ambiguous." In future Aryayaxi and Orayoxe, the definite article basically means "you know which one I mean (because I mentioned it)," the indefinite article means &q...
- 20 Feb 2024 17:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Just to clarify: your idea is to lose vowel length but keep the synchronic latin stress rule leading to many (diachronic) stress shifts, right? Yes Sounds naturalistic but I would frame it slightly different. You lose vowel length, keep stress positions (so in a way 'lose' the synchronic stress rul...
- 20 Feb 2024 14:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1736
- Views: 361674
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How plausible it would be that a Romlang preserved Latin phonetic stressing after the loss of vowel length?
cantāre has the stress on the penultimate syllable.
=> cantare would have the stress on the antepenultimate syllable
cantāre has the stress on the penultimate syllable.
=> cantare would have the stress on the antepenultimate syllable
- 19 Feb 2024 05:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 579
- Views: 160705
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
My romlang idea.
p t t͡s k (ks) <p t c/ç c/qu (x)>
f θ s x <f ŧ s ꝁ>
v ð z ɣ <v d z g>
m n ɲ <m n gn>
l r j <l r j>
Having <ꝁ> without <k> is a bit strange. Maybe <c̄>.
p t t͡s k (ks) <p t c/ç c/qu (x)>
f θ s x <f ŧ s ꝁ>
v ð z ɣ <v d z g>
m n ɲ <m n gn>
l r j <l r j>
Having <ꝁ> without <k> is a bit strange. Maybe <c̄>.
- 17 Feb 2024 11:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
- Replies: 900
- Views: 213568
Re: Random ideas: Morphosyntax
What if all location prepositions (they don't have to be such an open class as in English) had a deictic meaning?
Ro bam 'in the house (there)'
Pa bam 'in the house (here)'
But cannot just say 'in the house'.
Maybe it appears in some natlangs?
Ro bam 'in the house (there)'
Pa bam 'in the house (here)'
But cannot just say 'in the house'.
Maybe it appears in some natlangs?