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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...

I just wanted to mention that I think the paper that I linked might be fringe science but it is still interesting for conlangers.

I recently saw a paper on this. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/4/844/htm

I would be interested in seeing the results.

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...

Thanks again everyone. I am confident now to use the clefts as planned.

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'...

I did not know the word endling

To me it looks like it would mean 'the last linguist '.

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...

@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.

Thank you so much. I was just really unsure.

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...

Could 'eating before paying' be 'pre-eating'?

Good job

I would prefer a). I don't like ts becoming z between vowels. Feels too Greek for me.

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.

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 ...

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/...

Allophonotactics: D/E
Stroness: B/C