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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 21:48 
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Dremel Windborne wrote:
There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.

Sorry, what? How? Why?

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 21:52 
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Do hand gestures count as phonemes?

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 22:10 
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You should probably try ignoring any suggestion that is aimed more at causing confusion than contributing.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 22:15 
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Let's say there are 16 noun cases, however they may be formed.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 22:40 
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One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 22:44 
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There is no wh-movement.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 23:54 
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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity


It's simply telicity.

The conlang has no definite article, but an indefinite one.


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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 23:57 
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The language has a body-part based numeral system.

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 01:54 
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The conlang has a NOM-ABSOL alignment.

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 02:52 
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Akzálī wrote:
Dremel Windborne wrote:
The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
The language has 5 degrees of comparison.


Oops, right on, I guess I had read that wrong [:$] Let's make that the fifth degree then.

Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Dremel Windborne wrote:
There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.

Sorry, what? How? Why?
Ossicone wrote:
You should probably try ignoring any suggestion that is aimed more at causing confusion than contributing.


I am shocked, appalled even, that you would insinuate such a thing [;)] In all seriousness though, I would be glad to elaborate on it if you wish; I guess I've spent too much time lurking the ZBB, with their quickly-escalating outlandish community langs (There was one I haven't been able to find, good Lord it was horrible).

I'll just count the edit I did of the one above my contribution for this post.


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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 04:41 
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Chagen wrote:
The conlang has a NOM-ABSOL alignment.

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 04:57 
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Weird, I swear Nominative-Absolutive was a kind of morphosyntactic alignment.

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 09:50 
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Solarius wrote:
The language is ergative and secundative.


Chagen wrote:
The conlang has a NOM-ABSOL alignment.


Looks like some kind of inconsistency here, but it can be solved:

The language is NOM-ABS for animates, and ERG-ABS for inanimates.

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PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 18:45 
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Visinoid wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:
One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity


It's simply telicity.

The conlang has no definite article, but an indefinite one.

Meaning that telicity is marked with another case, probably ACC or something, and that the partitive is used opposite that.

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PostPosted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 04:41 
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Concrete locations are expressed with a noun with cases marked (behind = at the back of, on top of = at the top of, beneath = at the bottom of, etc.)

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PostPosted: Fri 16 Mar 2012, 15:58 
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Indefinite pronouns are based on interrogatives. (So, instead of saying 'someone' and 'something', one might say something like 'somewho' and 'somewhat')

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PostPosted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 07:20 
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/ʎ̥/ cannot be labialized.

Review of the phonology so far:

t d̤ c ɟ̤ k g̤
tʷ d̤ʷ kʷ g̤ʷ
s ʃ ʎ̥ x
sʷ ʃʷ
ts tʃ cʎ kx
tsʷ tʃʷ
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i a ɯ ʌ ɛ
i˞ ɯ˞ ɛ˞

Allophony:

Voiceless fricatives become voiced (so /s/ becomes [z], etc.) before voiced plosives.
Possible allophonic glottal stop?

[tick] phonemic labialization on plosives, fricatives and affricates
[tick] no /cʷ/ or /ɟ̤ʷ/
[tick] only labialized affricates are /tsʷ/and /tʃʷ/
[tick] /ʎ̥/ and /x/ cannot be labialized
[tick] breathy voiced plosives
:!: phonemic pharyngealized consonants
[tick] four affricates
[tick] 3 POA for plosives and corresponding afficates. (fourth is perhaps a lateral affricate)
:!: vowel length distinction
[tick] phonemic rhotacized vowels (the rhoticized versions of /i ɯ ɛ / are the only rhotic vowels)
:!: 36 phonemes in all (~31 atm)
[tick] no /p/
[tick] no /b/
:!: no phonemic nasals (although we haven't ruled out nasals as allophones)
[tick] no phonemic rounded vowels

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PostPosted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 11:10 
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a and ʌ can be long or short.

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PostPosted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 11:13 
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/t/ and /s/ are the only consonants that can be pharyngealized.

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PostPosted: Sun 18 Mar 2012, 12:12 
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A word can't end in /ɥ/.

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