The CBB

It makes sense to me that the only allowed triplets are in this pattern of a sonorant followed by a geminate stop, as if the sonorant really belonged to the preceding vowel as in the nearby Baltic languages and earlier stages of Slavic. A good point! If I remember correctly, voiceless stops in Latv...

So, according to this paper, Old Prussian was undergoing a chain shift in the 1500s wherein i: > ei, u: > au/ou, e: > i:, and o: > u:. This strikes me as incredibly weird; it is almost identical to the Great Vowel Shift in English. The only real difference is that a: was unaffected. Does anyone have...

As for mister’s zero-marked desiderative (please don’t use “desirative”, Omzie; it’s so ugly [:P] ), I think it’s plausible to posit that the uninflected base form is an irrealis, which could then take on a desiderative meaning, possibly to the exclusion of other meanings. Personally, I would find ...

Is it plausible if the base form of most 'action' verbs, such as see, hear, or do, only indicates the desire to perform a given action, so that, for example, a verb glossed as see-1SG means 'I want to see', but any tense suffix cancels this out? (Also, the present tense would be formed in some unusu...

It's cool that you didn't just apply a bunch of sound changes and call it a day, although, if that was all you had done, and it had resulted in the current "look" of the language, then it might have been enough on its own, but that you also put in some nice, thoughtful morphological and le...