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Me I think this comes under "language changes". Perhaps some examples of what you mean would be helpful. English doesn't have a lot of morphemes, and making new ones up will probably end up being a non-starter. Even where there is an obvious need. English has loads of morphemes though. We...

Who considers proto-IE a split-S language? I don't think I've heard that before, please tell. E.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282686165_Observations_on_the_active-stative_alignment_of_Early_Proto-Indo-European for an article that marshals evidence against that hypothesis. But it has r...

Vlürch wrote: ↑04 May 2018 02:04 This could go in either this or the morphosyntax thread, but the idea started from "grammatical auto-antonyms" and how they could be handled in a cool way, so I'm posting it in this thread.
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That's a really cool idea but I don't understand why the tense system.

I actually meant an inflection. Also OTOH I don’t see why it couldn’t be separate roots. as i inderstand it some split-S languages (Proto-IE apparently among them) have unrelated roots for “water” as an agent vs “water” as a patient; and the same is true of several other nouns. Different cases of th...

A root for "light source" and sun translates as "main light-source".
English uses "light" to mean both what is emmited and where it is emmited from but what about having different words for that?

Ser wrote: ↑04 Feb 2018 13:06 open ~ start, begin ~ turn on ~ drive [a vehicle] ~ boil [sth] ~ give [a medical prescription, invoice, cheque...] (attested in Mandarin: 开 kai1)

I can see the logic behind the other ones (apart from quid) but not this one. Could you explain it please if you can?

rhythm, habit, routine, cycle v melody, storyline, arc, plot Rhythm is habit in music, habit is rhythm in daily life. It is as a concept opposed to the concept of the arc of things. Like the arc of a song or a story (storyline). Sorry if you don't know what I mean by 'arc', I wasn't sure what other...

I was talking about concepts I don't know words for by talking about the similarities between concepts I know words for and the concepts I don't know words for are formed from those similarities.

Since in English the 3rd person singular verb form is the only differently formed one in the present tense, in a conlang based on English it could come to mean other, different from speaker and listener, distal and appear in the plural as well. The 1st and 2nd person forms could come to mean proxima...

A few of the posts in the morphosyntax thread seem more appropriate here.
Post your vocabularies etc here

Other random ideas threads:
Phonology
Morphosyntax
Yay or nay?
Also see:
Interesting spectra and categories
Lexicon sculpting 1
Lexicon Sculpting 2 (in parallel to above)

I sometimes like the idea of loaning entire inflectional paradigms at a time. They may not always fit without editing but such is true of phonology too.
Did German used to do this with Latin?

I once thought of a system where each consonant is flipped between two manners of articulation to form opposites and negatives.
What's your negation system @Parlox? viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6581#p273810

So i've been working on my 3Cons language and had an idea for nouns and pronouns. Nouns are inherently plural, and are marked for the singular. But pronouns are inherently singular and marked for the plural. Here is another idea i had for an alignment where S = R (which i'll call 1), A = T (which i...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018 22:02 Oh I meant adding example sentences, a bit like Parlox did above. Sorry, I for not being clear.

You were clear don't worry. I just thought that that might also help.
Do you still want me to post example sentences?

Creyeditor wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018 12:07 Could you provide some more examples for your ideas? I have a hard time following your explanations

Is it better now that I've made some edits?

Using the nominative or absolutive (default) case for all arguments to verbs such as 'consist of', 'contain'/'be inside of' (with adpositions) because they are not really agents or patients Two states of the noun: active and passive. If agent is included under passive then it'll be like this: activ...

If "I" = "my" and "speak" = "event of speaking" then "I speak" = "my event of speaking" etc '=' in this case means 'has the same word as' So for instance: "I dislike they argue" would be "I dislike their arguing" To make...

Secundative alignment with object of verb to eat in the thematic case (my name for the case of the thing being transferred in a ditransitive sentence).
Because it is being transferred.

Parlox wrote: ↑13 Feb 2018 08:34 I've started work on a list of specific nouns and verbs showing how they can be formed in way not so English-esc. I had this idea when i read something about the words Snail and Slug often being one word in languages.

Can you explain further?

Puwali. Where most grammatical information is encoded into nouns by using other nouns. That reminds me of relational nouns in some natlangs. And an idea I had a while back and someone else even further back where you could pair two nouns to say that one is the other and make sort of cases that way....