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I know it happens, but I can't see why the process would significantly change with or without polysynthesis.

I guess life insurance would change. Could you explain your scenario more? I'm indeed pondering an anthology fantasy akin to the Elder Scrolls. One potential society would mimic the Dwemer in vanishing, but as a twist vanish in the future of the setting instead of the past. I'm interested in potent...

Basically?

What's some less obvious implications of a reverse Dwemer disappearance, i.e. disappearing in the future and everybody knows it'll happen, just the details aren't known?

Purely a hobbyist who started with Wikipedia and moved on to actual linguists' articles/books .

"Want" predicates: Optative clauses, where the speaker/writer wants the predicate achieved, use the clitic = niḷi . Verbal clause tikayap matiŋnar=niḷi "I want her to eat soup" Nonverbal clause: Kaṉuma ṇaluyar=niḷi "I want to be an orphan" Desiderative clauses, where th...

Expression of predicate possession: Possessors are unmarked and the possessee takes the form of a derived adjective via a proprietive suffix - wali as in the formula N1 N2- wali . The adjective agrees with the possessor. ṇa-yapa ṇa-paytu-wali The man has a dog Expression of predicate unpossession: T...

Point taken.

Creyeditor wrote: ↑18 Sep 2024 22:59Yes, prohibitives are cool and mot used enough in conlanging.

Do we have survey data for this?

De Gruyter has lotsa books out now re: Pacific Linguistics cheap and I'm awaiting a couple. What me in 2007 woulda looked at you funny for!

1a. Kaṉuma tipaltirin̰aŋka tikami til̰ura Kaṉuma ti-apaltiri-n̰aŋka ti-kami ti-l̰ura 1 BP-apple.tree-fruit BP-COM BP-excess I have too many apples. 1b. Kaṉuma tiwiṭa tipaltirin̰aŋka tikami til̰ura Kaṉuma ti-wiṭa ti-apaltiri-n̰aŋka ti-kami ti-l̰ura 1 BP-one BP-apple.tree-fruit BP-COM BP-excess I have...

Concurred "That is neat-o."

I remembered to write a little bit about noun incorporation with some examples. "Hurr-durr, remember the polysynthesis lol."

I'm undecided between my current Project Knox scheme to always add an epenthetic ŋ between vowels or to simply progressively delete later vowels in clusters arising with a further variant that makes an exception for the gender prefixes for requiring an underlying form. 1 *ralu-impa > ralu-ŋimpa and ...

Okay, skipped over Fanael to protondonor per request.

I wouldn't call it stable, but I could believe voiceless labialized nasals as products of cluster reduction, the same process at a first stage producing geminate nasals and geminates being prone to devoicing before then shortening. You could have them for a while. Being not impossible, I suggest we ...

ṇamitil ṉaṇuṛi juṉataninu mayuŋtayt̰a.
ṇa-mitil ṉa-ṇuṛi ju-ṉa-ta-ninu ma-yu-ŋ-tay-t̰a
M-boy F-girl TOOL-F-AL-letter 3-3TOOL-SG>SG-write.on-PST
"The boy wrote the girl a letter" (lit. "The boy wrote the girl's letter)

I have substituted nouns for relevance. No ditransitives ftw.

A: Waṛiŋ wayatarapat̰a. B: Wiraŋ. Waṛiŋ wayatar t̰al̰u.
A: LIQ-Water 3LIQ-fall-CESS-PST B: ABST-false. LIQ-water 3LIQ-fall-PRS still
A: it stopped raining. B: Guess again. It still is.

Germ of an idea:

/m n
m̰ n̰
pʰ tʰ kʰ
p t k ʔ
b d g ʔ̰
s h
z
ɾ/

Less germane, standard 5 vowels plus centering diphthongs contrasting modal vs creaky voice.

Spatial relations are typically handled by relational nouns in combination with an applicative in one of two constructions. A sample list: - un̰uy above; top; summit; peak - tan bottom; below; under - ḻaka front - ṉuki behind; back - paṛal inside - ṉiṛu outside - aɺu middle; center The first is a fr...