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Re: Karhionza
Verb pattern preverb - incorporated noun - root - mood - person Preverb is something that is called lexical affix. As I said in the other thread, they are still a bit mystery to me. Incorporated nouns are reduced somehow. Verb roots are usually monosyllabic and CVC [n, l, r] . They are something bet...
Karhionza
Karhionza is my newest project. I guess it will not last long but who cares. It is an attempt to combine a Tolkien style phonology with a non-Tolkien morphosyntax. p f t s c k h b v d z ɟ g m n (ŋ) l r w j i u e o ä Maximal syllable structure is: CVR, where R is {l r n}. The second line of consonant...
Re: Xiwook
Nouns have personal prefixes Person prefixes are simple k(a)- SG1 c(a)- SG2 s(a)- SG3 hu- PL1 cu- PL2 su- PL3 When combined with the definite form, they express possessor. When combined with the indefinite form, they express copular subject. c-lakk SG2-person 'You are a person.' Adjectives are also ...
- 26 Mar 2024 17:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
- Replies: 12
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Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Is the semantic distinction between the two basicly that of tense in modern Tsayyākan?
Or aspect?
Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still?
Or aspect?
Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still?
- 26 Mar 2024 00:02
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstruent or lacks, the syllable has one of two tones (rising or loweri...
- 24 Mar 2024 22:56
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Omzinian Scrap thread
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Re: Omzinian Scrap thread
Case system for a lang. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta ERG-ABL kanta-r LOC kanta-sa ESS kanta-n ASS kanta-ri I'm boldly copying the idea of prefixal-reduplication as a plural marker from Davush's Tsayyākan. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta-nda ERG-ABL kanta-nda-r LOC kanta-nda-sa ESS kanta-nda-n ASS kanta-nda-ri Po...
- 24 Mar 2024 11:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: SBäk e Dlor
- Replies: 70
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Re: SBäk e Dlor
ATM my LaTex document of Dlor grammar has 3 3 subordinate conjunctions. One dimension is role: complement/relative, adverbial, some kind of contrast. The second one is tense: simultaneous, anterior, posterior. The third one is mood: factual, non-factual, counterfactual. A natural system is not that ...
- 24 Mar 2024 11:50
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...
- 23 Mar 2024 21:57
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
- Replies: 12
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Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
With CVCVC roots, this general pattern of CV:CVC vs. CVCV:C is spread analogically and/or by haplology: makas- sweep mākas- sweeping (not *māmakas) makās- swept (not *makasās I like that. Reminds me of Arabic, but not too much. Being participles, perhaps they were also marked for number. If they to...
- 23 Mar 2024 21:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
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Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
and in part because while I was aware of the existence of affixes having an adverbial function, I didn’t really know how to incorporate them, and I was not fully aware of their range of potential functions or what an important feature they can be in polysynthetic languages (as set forth in the arti...
- 22 Mar 2024 15:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...
- 22 Mar 2024 14:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Usani Language and Scratchpad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 226
Re: Usani Language and Scratchpad
It is an old Proto-Slavic participle 'having done'. It has gender and number inflection.
Different Slavic languages differ in where the copula is used with it. Russian is a zero-copula language and it's never used.
Re: Xiwook
The paradigm of words ending in non-obstruents.
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han 'donkey'
case word ending
NOM INDEF han -
NOM DEF ha'n <'>
LOC INDEF hantsi -si
LOC DEF hanta -ta
Some words frequently used in Locative have more complex locative forms.
ASS INDEF hann(i) -:(i)
ASS DEF hann(a) -:(a)
- 20 Mar 2024 13:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)?
- 18 Mar 2024 01:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
- Replies: 12
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Re: Tsayyākan - Scratchpad
Quenya comes to my mind. I like the case paradigm. It's agglutinative and still has some processes that make it interesting. The plural reduplication is also a nice idea. What if an over-heavy CV:N syllable appears stem-finally and you want to add a suffix? Then the syllable is not word-final anymore.
- 17 Mar 2024 11:48
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 598
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Have you described them somewhere?VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024 10:32 [...] and some fairly lexical "aspect" prefixes which include some adverb-ish senses like "until" and a transformative.
- 17 Mar 2024 10:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
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Re: What did you accomplish today?
It is also one option.
But I think allophony does the thing well. I could even try writing the name Xewook.
- 17 Mar 2024 10:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 598
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
My Dlor, which is not polysynthetic in the full sense of the concept but has some features, has prefixes expressing body parts, 'to do with hands', 'to do with mouth/teeth' ... If the word, accent falls on the prefix its function is instrument, if on the root, its function is object.
- 17 Mar 2024 10:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
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Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
How is the system of field/lexical affixes in your polysynthetic conlangs? What meanings are coded in the same slot? Mattissen's "A structural typology of polysynthesis" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00437956.2004.11432546 poses that they are the main feature making a lang po...