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You could (and some natlangs do IIRC) also have island constraints on topicalization and/or focus movement. I usually describe word order alternations in positive terms, so I have not come up with island constraints in conlangs yet. Which makes me wonder. If my Omlüüt deuteropositioms are derived by...

Arabic dialects generally have right-oriented weight-sensitive stress, IIRC. Some systems are pretty complex. Do you have any specific dialect in mind?

Nominalizations I I decided to just start writing and then split up the post whenever my time is up. So, Indonesian has at least four native strategies for nominalization. Suffix -an as in tembakan 'shooting' (< tembak 'to shoot') or kotoran 'dirt' (< kotor 'dirty') Circumfix ke- -an as in kedatang...

What is the best English vowel?

They look much more Egyptian in practice than I thought they would. Nice

This is a very good question. I wrote up a sneak preview post twice but it got deleted due to changing networks. I will write up a post about nominalizations soon and add some stuff about verbalizations. Thanks again for the question.

Hmm, according to Wiktionary the Old Polish word is a loan from Old High German hloz.

Well, it's pretty clear. All kinds of stuff happens and we don't really know why at least as far as far as the interaction of vowel height and nasalization is concerned.

Great question. I haven't decided yet. It might have inherited them from Proto-Northern, regularizing the patterns by analogy. This would explain polysyllabic roots in related languages like Omlüüt, where they would have been fully lexicalized. The second option would be to derive infixes from phono...

Oh, I think this might have been a misunderstanding. I am not talking about this single summary post: Morphology tl;dr Kobardon uses infixes, prefixes and suffixes in its morphology. Infixes are used for derivational morphology. They can be grouped into two classes, based on their attachment site an...

Maybe it could be two different palatalization processes. Maybe the nasal could become palatal in all contexts and /k/ only before front vowels.

Hmm, I was hoping for a more detailed response.

Oh, that sounds like interesting feedback. What could I elaborate on? What other examples would you like to see?

Could this be extended to other contexts? I was thinking of subject elipsis, maybe also relative clauses, ...

Because there is no overt subject in imperatives?

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Morphology tl;dr Kobardon uses infixes, prefixes and suffixes in its morphology. Infixes are used for derivational morphology. They can be grouped into two classes, based on their attachment site and their semantics. Inflecional morphology employs suffixes and prefixes, with the former being slight...

I was thinking of a North German group of communists exciling into Soviet Russia and developing a Russian influenced form of high register Standard German. I especially like my idea of <-ieren> becoming a palatalizing suffix /-an/.

Isn't this just gender marking and declension classes coinciding?

I found Wapishana (https://phoible.org/inventories/view/608#tipa) and Jivaro (https://phoible.org/inventories/view/383#tipa) with eight vowels each, half of it nasal via UPSID on Phoible. Probably, there is more in South America.