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But the same collaps can lead to tone in agglutinating languages, right? How many language families have tone and are analytic/isolating? Sinitic, Austrasiatic, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien How many languages families have tone and are not isolating/analytic? Chadic, Omotic, Khoe, Kx'a, Tuu, Nilo-Saharan, At...

No. Why would you think so?

Nominalizations IV peN- derives agent nominalizations. penduduk 'inhabitant' (< duduk 'to sit') penumpang 'passenger (related to menumpang 'to ride along, to catch a ride') penonton 'viewer' (related to menonton 'to watch') pekerja 'worker' (< kerja 'work') pencinta 'lover' (< cinta '(to) love') peN...

Particles Particles do not take any inflectional or derivational morphology. They perform functions that combine the well-known categories of prepositions and conjunctions. This means that they link nouns and/or clauses in any combination. Unlike precategorical roots, they can never change their pa...

Oh, so like serial verb constructions? @LinguoFranco: Are your verbs inflected? And if so, for what?

Just because the terminology is confusing me. What us a co-verb again?

I was thinking about a conscript for Omlüüt. I don't want a logography (it does not fit the vibe) and the syllable structure (CCCVCC) is too complex for a syllabary with all possible syllables. So I was thinking about a katakana-style mora-based script (Omlüüt poetry is mora-counting). The idea woul...

Damn typos. I should be less tired when writing posts. Thanks for catching it

Nominalizations III The circumfix peN- -an derives action nominalizations. penulisan the act of writing (< tulis , menulis to write ) penerjemahan translation (< terjemah to translate ) pembacaan reading (< baca, membaca to read ) pendaftaran registration (< daftar register ) pembangunan developmen...

Well, at least not liberal parlamentary democracy in the way it is practiced. In theory, soviet communism was based on a council system (similar to the way I pictured it), recall voting, and the absence of any division of power or checks and balances. Of course, in practice it was very different. Go...

I was thinking of a barony as roughly between 5 and 70 km². A county would be around 200 km². A duchy/dukedom would be around 5 000 to 15 000 km². A kingdom could be between 15 000 km and 70 000 km². The Empire would then only be around 200 000 km² to 500 000 km². Of course, the size of any subunit ...

Pronouns Pronouns are special in that they do not take any regular regular morphology, but still show (mostly) suppletive allomorphs in order to express number, person and case. Syntactically, they occur in the same positions as nouns do. Subject and object pronouns occur when the argument of a ver...

Ah, thank you. Yes, the second thing is what I think is closer to what I thought of. The first thing seems to be more realistic though, as their was at least some kind of common land in feudalist systems.

Hmm, crazy. Neither do I but it seems it's free in my country. Feel free to PM me and I'll see what I can do.

Okay, here is an idea for a feudalist communist society, inspired by the question I asked in the quick question thread. It starts with peasants in a certain small area (called a barony) voting for a baron among themselves. As all titles, the position is lifelong and hereditary. There are, however, t...

Maybe a paper by Larry Hyman (and colleagues) is a good place to start. This paper ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4615449.pdf ) has a brief overview of the Association Convention and presents a counterexample. This should make it clear that you are basically free to do whatever you want even if ...

That's up to you to decide. Many languages associate left to right, i.e. HLL, other languages do right to left, i.e. HHL. Have you read up on the Association Convention?

I just thought of the term Feudalkommunismus (feudal communism) and that it would be a nice idea for conworlding. How could such a system look like? Perhaps like this (which I decided to adopt, perhaps with some modification, for my Elves)? Not really what I imagined but a good source of inspiratio...

What exactly is your problem with assigning HL tones to multisyllabic words?

I just thought of the term Feudalkommunismus (feudal communism) and that it would be a nice idea for conworlding. How could such a system look like?