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Do you have a grammatical voice to mark causative diathesis? Do you have a grammatical voice to mark reflexive diathesis? Do you have a grammatical voice to mark reciprocal diathesis? No to all! causative voice; reflexive voice; reciprocal voice; None of those feel "oblique" like the prev...

I just had an idea hit me in the head, quite painfully I went unconciouss for about 30 minutes but I digress. I was originally going for something else and realised I could use applicative voice aswlel within my construct without loss of anything and meaning and nothing would have to be changed or a...

Having read others' responses, I now realize I misread the O.P., and wish to controvert about half of my first response. "Voilitive" is still just fine; it's not "volitional", like DesEsseintes worried. (When DesEsseintes suggested it might get confused with "volition"...

Salmoneus wrote:Or commissive, depending on the nuances.

Oh? Elabroate please

eldin raigmore wrote:Look at WALS.info featureschapters 100, 102, and 104; probably 101 and 103 also. FeaturesChapters 25 and 29 might also be informative.

Done didily done :) I am curious to see what others have!

"Volitive" is just fine. I think it would probably be called "second imperative" or something like that, though. Moods (and cases and other accidents) are often named for one of their main or most common uses and/or meanings, rather than for all of their common uses/meanings or ...

hello again! Reading up on agreements and pondering for my conlang I thought that Accusative agreement is quite common, and polypersonal agreement too (strangely from a european perspective seems strange atleast to me that it is more common) I wonder have anyone done any more "exotic" pers...

I am working on my verb system and I have decieded to have a mood which uses hortative, jussive and requests into a mix but I am not certain what to call it. Basicly the mood would be expressing things you want others to do or you with them but not direct commands and apply all persons and numbers, ...

I have been pondering and I am thinking, can participles carry moods?

Mooooo

What do you think about auxlangs, like Esperanto and the like? It propably was a good idea back then, but nowadays, we have English as the lingua franca of the Earth. and back when Esperanto was born, the lingua franca was French, if I recall. Not at all, it was a political language yes but not a l...

This is somewhat rambling but something I just thought on and would like to share for input The english alphabet, not counting special characters like space, comma, dot etc, have 26 letters. which requires around 4,7 bits of information, let's round it to an even 5 bits. So a letter contains 5 bits ...

The reasons metals are so lovely is because they are easily formed to what we want, stones are not.

Valosken wrote:I've seen a variation on "Use IPA, so we can understand what you're saying." over 10 times, and it doesn't look like Mr. V3 has made much of an attempt to do so. I'm unsure whether it's bad English skills or...

this is the very reason for my previous post

Not only that but Base-10 is the most efficient and easy to understand numerical system you can have. You're wrooooooong Base 10 is not inherently effient nor understandable, it is the most commonly used one due to our ten fingers which makes it easy to derive in history but it is all about hwat yo...

Joke, Troll, ignorance or insanity? Inaccuracy. And yours is intolerance. Not at all, not knowing falls under ignorance so I was accurate and not intolerant. part is mindless aggression Mindless aggression I wouldn't say because that was about as wierd as saying that earth is a potato in a ginormou...

Every language at some point had three-consonant stems, even Proto-Greek and Proto-Latin

Joke, Troll, ignorance or insanity?

Spider pig, spider pig :D

I think that's the real issue, that it seemed like he was asking for advice, and then blatantly ignoring the advice given, doing it in his own way (which few to none of us understand) and then wondering why no one is really helping. This is the issue for my post, as I said in my post it is okey not...

IPA or http://seemslegit.com/_images/3f203b9d55b430ffa396a3b35069f489/41%20-%20gtfo%20kindly-leave%20picard%20star-trek%20theres-the-door.jpg V3, take it with the kindest form you can imagen, while we all agree it is difficult at first to learn IPA it is of absolute importance to learn. We have no c...