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I'm thinking about diachronic conlanging.

If the proto-language has /o:/, what could condition that the/o:/ changes to /u:/ in some environments and /uo/ in some environments?

A new attempt on adpositions [...] 3) preposition noun+NOM postposition. The postposition can also be seen as an adverb. It can also appear somewhere else than after the noun if there is the preposition too. Is X heza 'inside' Ha X hezi 'into' Aj X hezta 'from the inside' Ran X hezti 'through the i...

The Turkish Nominal Phrase in Spoken Discourse 6.4.3 https://books.google.fi/books?id=LGSChe ... ic&f=false

seems to analyse that Genitive NP and Possessive Suffixes in Turkish are actually adverbials.

There is a medio-passive voice in Gada. In monosyllabic verbs, it is marked by tones. Earlier medio-passive marker thus disappeared and the tone of a polysyllabic word is left. fi ót 'to take' fi òt 'to go' fi klán 'to find' fi klàn 'to be there' fi lýn 'to speak' fi ly`n 'to think' (to speak to one...

Hey it's been a while since I've been on.. And I have a quick question. So a conlang I've been working on has no adverbs or adjectives, instead it uses nouns for both of these categories. My question is: What might be a good way to handle pro-adverbs like where/how/therefore/etc? I was thinking of ...

Just to add: I don't agree that we need a theory to look at languages. I think we do need concepts , but not necessarily a theory (not that snytactic theories are really theories anyway!). As an analogy: let's say you tell me you like, say, the dance of the sugar plum fairy from The Nutcracker, and...

"Possessive clause" is a semantic~ish term to me, "a clause that expresses possession". Apparently I should have said "a clause expressing clausal possession" or something. "Existential clause" seems to be a syntactic label (in this discussion). That's not how I was using it, no. I was using it as ...

I apologize if this post is too long. It's just that I love this stuff! And I want to make some time to discuss it. Yes, it seems that (in)definiteness is not the right category to describe what I find fascinating in that. Restrictiveness might be a better concept for conceptualizing the point. "My...

Written before Ser I guess I'd kind of like to understand what you were talking about, because then I might (or might not) find it interesting! If nothing else, it would be nice to know if you found my posts on what I thought might be the topic interesting, or if they were just a waste of time. EDIT...

The change from [r] to [ʁ] started in the 18th or 19th century, so seeing as your speakers belong to a separate linguistic community, it's not unreasonable that they would keep their distinction. There were pockets of [r]-using dialects even in the South. As a solution for the d>r thing, you could ...

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say. Could you maybe try saying it in a non-theoretical-framework way? It may be that whatever framework you're using here is creating an unnecessary confusion both for you, and for us in understanding you? I'm not even that confident around your...

Reflexives and reciprocals are just intransitives.

θanisò ujinu.
θ-a-nino-` ujin-u
ANIM.O-DIR-PL1-PAT love-V
'We love him/her.'

Taniso ujinu.
t-a-nino ujin-u
ANIM.S-DIR-PL1 love-V
'We love each other.'

Some verbs have of course other meanings as intransitives.

So *waćV is PU reconstruction for a shamelike thing?
What is the PU form for 'stomach'?

My understanding of Uralistics is very fragmented.

Demonstratives are formed with preposition tiltu 'near'. Prepositions and verbs have -e form used as an attribute. hema tilte 'that tree' It can be specified with pronominal clitics: hema tilteso 'this tree (near the speaker)' hema tilteno 'that tree (near the addressee)' hema tilteniso 'this tree (...

I have studied Hungarian and Turkish possession clauses. I It took time to dig information from the Internet. At last, I just used Google Translate and analysed the result. Adamın bir evi var. man-GEN INDEF house-HIS exists 'The man has a house.' The interesting point is that 'his house' is an inde...

Unfortunately, I cannot own a grammar book of every language. I own quite many and try to avoid getting more. You know how it is when you get inspiration to find something out at once. But Google Translate works surprisingly well (if one of the languages is English). I start trusting it at some poin...

Like I said, it was very hard to find it directly said. All forums say things like 'I have a house' "Evim var.". It was kind of the non-linguistic point of the massage that I had to use Google translate to see that the possessor appears in Genitive not ,say, Dative. Forums quite often lack some very...

Questions Polar questions (those answered yes or no) are formed by using Interrogative form of Auxiliary, (1). (1) θunusò oxinu? θ-u-nu-so-` oxin-u ANIM.DO-DIR.INTERROGATIVE-sg2-sg1-O love-V 'Do you love me?' Interrogative form does not code polarity. If you just want to know the truth value, you ne...

[...] Phonology It is very simple so it can be presented as phoneme tables. Consonant phonemes p t k ʔ f θ x h s m n pm tn kŋ l tl kʟ * Prestopped consonants usually only appear in morpho-phonological processes. <p t k '> <f θ~þ x h> <s> <m n> <pm tn kn> <l> <tl kl> Vowel phonemes i u e o ä <i u> <...

Adamın bir evi var. man-GEN INDEF house-HIS exists 'The man has a house.' The interesting point is that 'his house' is an indefinite NP. Well, it has that bir "INDEF" marker there, so presumably it's definite without that? English allows similar indefinite interpretations of noun phrases possessed ...