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[...] The examples you give match more or less what I found, though as said, the elision and assimilation pathway seems somewhat unlikely to happen for all consonants (to me, and I'm not a good yardstick on knowing); unless it was transferred to all consonants by analogy as opposed to an unconsciou...

this is a very enjoyable read. kudos! My current problem with the syntax. 'Horse' could be "le'-tezuuk" 'a riding animal' But how do I say 'The animal is a horse.' "Le', tezuuk." means 'The animal rides.' or 'The animal is ridden.' but not 'The animal is a horse.' Compound nouns...

Am wondering if pre verb modals or post verbal inflections are better for situationals eg You can eat vs eat able or you may eat vs if you eat? I noticed that if I stick to post verbal inflections the order of verbs become very regimented (like Japanese) and you just end up sticking to grammatical ...

I'm currently trying to develop a phonology where clusters don't occur except in very few cases, but there's also has a large number of a specific type of geminate - one where the first in the pair is effectively a standalone, syllabic consonant. E.g. /axxa/ is realized as [a.x.xa] (or probably mor...

Simple verbs ghiv 'like' kuhë 'want' kër 'see', kur 'saw' pil 'eat/drink', pul 'ate' tulh 'move about' tut 'cook, prepare' Coverbs ëfäm 'love' mumtë 'flow' vëtki 'write' Nouns ëssä 'book' (ëCCa, ëCCë - - (ëCCë) hëppë 'village' (CëCCë, - - - ) huklë 'cake' ih 'water' (äCä,ih, no, no) krhëhi 'town' (C...

There are two noun cases: Nominative and Partitive. Syntactic uses Partitive is the case of direct objects that are not affected completely or that do not participate in the event as whole. In (1), the case codes resultative vs. irresultative aspect. (1a) Tsut-vëtkimi i ëssa. t<s>ut-vëtki-mi i ëssa ...

Nouns have six gender-number classes Masculine singular (animate nouns that refer to males) Feminine singular (animate nouns that refer to females) Animate plural (plural of masculines and feminines) NeuterI singular (some of inanimate nouns) NeuterII singular (the other inanimate nouns) Inanimate p...

Infinitive and complement clauses Complement clause is a clause that is the object (or some other obligatory argument) of the matrix clause. In Ast-amu, they are nonfinite, i.e. the verb form can code less categories than that of the other clauses. The verb form of complement clause is called Infini...

Preliminary morphology of simple verbs I have started dozens of lang with verbs as a closed class. Because they are a closed class, I decide that they can be morphologically very irregular, like the most used verbs in many languages. Then I run into trouble. Ast-amu simple verbs have a polypersonal ...

My current problem with the syntax. 'Horse' could be "le'-tezuuk" 'a riding animal' But how do I say 'The animal is a horse.' "Le', tezuuk." means 'The animal rides.' or 'The animal is ridden.' but not 'The animal is a horse.' Compound nouns can be more ideosyncratic and specifi...

Verbs An ast-amu predicate can either have a simple verb, (1), a complex verb of a simple verb and a coverb, (2), or a simple verb with an incorporated object, (3). (1) Psä kkrhëhi. [psæk.kr̥ə.'ħi] p<s>ä k-krëhi go<SG1> DEF-town 'I went to the town.' (2) Psärezkan kkrhëhi. [psæ.rəz.kɑŋk.kr̥ə'ħi] p<s...

Ast-amu, [ɑst.ʔɑ'mu], the language of the Amu people, is my newest project. I don't know if it will go on or not. I' also recycling the ideas I have been playing with lately. Features Phonology - French-style stressing of phrases instead of words - Allows many consonant clusters - a small-scale vowe...

I hope I didn't kill this thread. It's still interesting.

Finnish usually distinguishes (often one derived from the other) stems for transitive and (unassusative) intransitive verbs. One interesting example is palaa 'to burn (intr.) and polttaa 'to burn (tr.)'. Polttaa is clearly derived from palaa with causative suffixe -ttaa , but there is some irregular...

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Newest idea - the phoneme inventory below - light verb + coverb predicates, could also have Greenlandic-style very productive verb derivation/ incorporation - maybe partitive objects - VSO, information structure not couded in the most frequent clausal constructions - semitic-style morphology Somethi...

Uses of the cases Absolutive Is the normal case of intransitive (= no direct object) subjects and copula complements. Case of affected transitive objects. Citation and vocative case. Partitive The case of less affected objects. (I have to think how that interacts with aspect.) The case of some intra...

Declension and cases There are six cases: Absolutive, Locative, Dative, Partitive, Ergative, and Ablative. Absolutive is the old nominative. Locative is the old locative. Dative is the old dative. It though codes goal beside recipient, which is not the natural direction of grammaticalization from co...

Phonology and sound changes Phonology The phonology is more or less borrowed from Chirdau, my older project. p t t͡ɕ* k <p t c c/ch> f θ s ɕ* x*** <f s x x/xh> m n <m n> l <l> r <r> j w** <j u> * Palatals /ɕ t͡ɕ/ can only appear before front vowels i, ɪ, e. ** The status of /w/ is questionable. It ...

I have been thinking about a new IE lang lately. Its ideal place has been moving around Eurasia (Spain, Latvia ...) but ATM I think it could be positioned on an island next to Sri Lanka. Some of its sound changes could be explained by Dravidian influence. Some features: Phonology - Merger of all thr...