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TBPO wrote: ↑29 Sep 2024 07:56 I love this conlang! Can I contribute?

It's been dead for 9 years

Which would be even closer to your idea, right? Yes. Just with different default alignments. Though I came to learn that there are quite a lot of constructions regarding ditransitives and it's quite possible to have secundative alignment expressed in a double object construction. I don't know. I do...

That is definitely possible. Some languages even have special morphology to change between dative alignment construction and secundative-like alignment morphology. German be- comes close, though it's not very productive. Ich schenke dem Kind einen Ball. 1SG.NOM give.as.gift the.M.DAT child a.M.ACC ...

Can certain grammatical voices take different alignments with respect to more-than-monotransitivity? Normal ditransitives in Vrkhazhian take a secundative alignment where the recipient is marked in the accusative while the theme is marked in the instrumental (much akin to "I supplied X with Y&q...

Okay, so there is still some confusion here: Plural agreement refers to the number of a certain argument, e.g. the subject, the object or the absolutive marked object. That's what people often gloss PL, usually also specifying the person, e.g. 3PL. Pluractionality on the other hand refers to the nu...

How does pluractionality work as lexical derivation rather than inflection? Like pluractionality essentially behaves like this: intransitive: (single subject) = iterative, intensive, completive (e.g. do X totally) (plural subject) = distributive transitive: (single object) = iterative, intensive, c...

How does pluractionality work as lexical derivation rather than inflection? Like pluractionality essentially behaves like this: intransitive: (single subject) = iterative, intensive, completive (e.g. do X totally) (plural subject) = distributive transitive: (single object) = iterative, intensive, co...

(for a similar question, see this thread: http://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7993 ) I’m 72 and a widower. I’ve been thinking about getting back in to dating. What’s an appropriate lower age-limit on which women I should ask out? 36 ? 48 ? 54 ? Well, you have to ask yourself: Should you date someon...

I am wondering if it's sensible for jaCC-/waCC- > iCC-/uCC- e.g. a verb has the stem yatat- (realis stem) but the imperative stem is itt-a- (< yatt-a- ) likewise yanad- (realis stem) has ind-a- (imperative stem) and wasiḫ- has usḫ-a- There is a possible wrench in this in that stressed, initial high-...

Please elaborate. Sounds like a potentially interesting idea. Would it mean to cause emotions (e.g. to make s.o. cry) or emotions causing stuff (e.g. my sadness made him leave) or causing stuff whike being emotional (e.g. I angrily made him stir the pot)? emotion-based causation. e.g. go > send vs....

Would it make sense to contrast an emotional causative from a non-emotional one?

Made a lot of progress on my sound changer/diachronic conlanging app, but a lot of it is mostly refurbishing the GUI. Actually new features are: - a syllabification mechanism - storage of sketch words into separate lists (if wanted) - auto-storage of above-mentioned syllabification for reuse in pre...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑08 Aug 2024 00:43 Vrkhazhian on Frath Wiki (https://www.frathwiki.com/Vrkhazhian). Not complete yet but I like the style and the vibe of it.

That makes me feel better. I value the aesthetics of the presentation of my conlang as much as I value the conlang itself.

I am thinking of deriving adnominals and adverbials by taking a verbal noun/action nominal and declining it in the equative case (which denotes likeness or similarity) rabādam "protector"/rabādas "protection, defense" > rabādāli "like a protector/protection > "protectiv...

Time for another diabolc duality declaration. There are (at least) two different clitic concepts in theoretical linguistics: adphrasal affixes and 'outer' affixes. Adphrasal affixes are clitics in the sense that they attach to a phrase and not to a word. This means that (a) they do not always occur...

Can clitics take secondary stress? I know they are characterized by lacking prosodic independence, which usually means unaccented/unstressed. But I hear nothing about whether they can or can't take secondary or tertiary stress as a feature of a word's demand for rhythmic feet.

Decided Vrkhazhian has ATR harmony that was triggered by the loss of pharyngeals. +ATR: /æ i u eː iː uː/<e i u ē ī ū> -ATR: /ɑ ɪ ʊ ɔː ɪː ʊː/<a i u ā ī ū> Though because of Vrkhazhian's prosody structure, only the low vowels maintain this harmony: +ATR: /ɛ ɪ ʊ eː iː uː/<e i u ē ī ū> -ATR: /ɑ ɪ ʊ ɑː i...

For some time I banged my head against the wall trying to figure out Vrkhazhian's case system.

Now I'm banging my head against the wall regarding Vrkhazhian's verbs.

Khemehekis wrote: ↑15 Jun 2024 23:09 @Ahzoh: How would Vrkhazhian handle the "not because" distinction in this translation exercise?

probably some illative plus an adversative or a double use of an adversative. Or a negative marker plus an adversative.

I recall reading a long exercise in evolving a language with triconsonantal roots the way the Afro-Asiatic languages were believed to have evolved. It was on either the ZBB or Fiat Lingua. back on...I want to say it was the ZBB, but i can't swear to it, I copied down how Semitic-style root systems ...