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- 13 Apr 2021 22:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I recently saw a paper on this. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/4/844/htm Interesting... honestly I only understood like a tenth of that, it's so technical, but it seems like it concludes that universal sound symbolism is true at least to some degree? What Eldin said basically. They found somethi...
- 13 Apr 2021 14:53
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I just wanted to mention that I think the paper that I linked might be fringe science but it is still interesting for conlangers.
- 13 Apr 2021 13:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I recently saw a paper on this. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/4/844/htm
- 13 Apr 2021 09:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I would be interested in seeing the results.
- 08 Apr 2021 11:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 314
- Views: 32948
Re: What did you accomplish today?
This isn't related to a specific conlang, but today my advisor and other faculty gave me the go-ahead to teach a course on typology and constructed languages for undergrads next year. Originally I was supposed to teach something related to my dissertation, but I argued against that for personal rea...
- 08 Apr 2021 11:29
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks again everyone. I am confident now to use the clefts as planned.
- 07 Apr 2021 09:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is it only that you want the relative to modify the dummy pronoun, or is it also that you want it to precede the copula? Because in English it modifies the dummy pronoun usually, but it still comes at the end of the sentence. ["It's a dog that I saw" means that what you saw was a dog, not that 'it'...
- 06 Apr 2021 14:33
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 395
- Views: 50146
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
I did not know the word endling
- 06 Apr 2021 12:06
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 395
- Views: 50146
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
To me it looks like it would mean 'the last linguist '.
- 06 Apr 2021 12:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
The Wikipedia page claims there is disagreement about the meanung of clefts *shrug* The Igbo examle looks like the cleft sentences I am used to. The relative clause seems to modify 'we' and not 'it'. The Finnish example is different, right? I probably wasn't really clear that I specifically was look...
- 06 Apr 2021 08:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
@Vlürch: That is exactly what I was looking for. The examples and your explanation of its usage make me much confident that I am not just mixing up everything including topic and focus.
- 05 Apr 2021 19:45
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thank you so much. I was just really unsure.
Edit: Japanese seems to use a similar strucuture, too.
- 05 Apr 2021 00:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have a complex quick question on syntax. Kobardon has a very strict word order and I was wondering how to focus different constituents. Objects can be focused using intonation (that is by changing phonological phrasing from [ S ][ VO ] to [ S ][ V ][ O ]), but so far I did not have strategy for fo...
- 04 Apr 2021 20:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What would the English equivalent be?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 13574
Re: What would the English equivalent be?
Could 'eating before paying' be 'pre-eating'?
- 03 Apr 2021 22:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 314
- Views: 32948
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Good job ![:) [:)]](./images/smilies/icon_smile2.png)
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- 03 Apr 2021 01:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 510
- Views: 38571
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I would prefer a). I don't like ts becoming z between vowels. Feels too Greek for me.
- 02 Apr 2021 19:29
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: How to create a super good awesome fantastic kewlness lexicon!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 599
Re: How to create a super good awesome fantastic kewlness lexicon!!!!!!!
Yes, correct. English was my first foreign language though. English influence included absence of final devoicing (e.g. word final /v/) and presence of certain cluster, e.g. word initial /sn/. Spelling wise, I mostly used a regularized German spelling.
- 02 Apr 2021 18:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Documentation pitfalls
- Replies: 23
- Views: 876
Re: Documentation pitfalls
I think a lot of documentation pitfalls can be summed up as "explaining form but not function". Conlangers explaining the morphological process behind how to form the dative, but leaving it up to the reader to jump to the conclusion that the dative is used for nominal predicates. Or explaining how ...
- 02 Apr 2021 01:16
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
- Replies: 258
- Views: 24956
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
A Similar idea I once had for a proto-lang. Onsets /m mʲ mʷ n ɲ nʷ/ /p pʲ pʷ t c tʷ k kʲ kʷ/ /b bʲ bʷ d ɟ dʷ g gʲ gʷ/ /ts tɕ tsʷ kx gɣ/ /dz dʑ/ /tɬ/ /dɮ/ /f fʲ fʷ s ɕʲ sʷ x ç hʷ/ /v vʲ vʷ z ʑʲ/ /ɬ/ /j w r l/ Nuclei /i u/ /ɛ ɔ/ /ɑ/ Codas /ʔ/ /N/ nasalizes a preceding vowel and is usually deleted. /H/...
- 01 Apr 2021 15:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Typological voting game
- Replies: 184
- Views: 15843
Re: Typological voting game
Allophonotactics: D/E
Stroness: B/C
Stroness: B/C