The CBB

Day 3:
Project Knox
yu-yuṇkit̰iṭiwal n. hunting hide; deer blind (elevated structure to observe animals)

Project Campbell
iŋ-ṯaṯa-tu n. hunting hide

First noncalque. "hunt-NMZ.place-high" vs a simple root.

Day 2: Project Knox yu-taḷawkuṉ n. fishing rod/pole yu-taḷawkuṉmiḻuy n. fishing line Project Campbell nal-yukipaŋkiti n. fishing rod/pile nal-yukipaŋkitikal̰a-ka n. fishing line Basically "fish-catch-NMZ(-)tool" (+"string") The real difference is the complexity of the nominalizer.

Not really doing hunter-gather grade vocab per se, but modern hunting will do.

Day 1:
Project Knox
yi-n̰apiŋum n. deer corn

Project Campbell
ti-ṉitu-ka n. deer corn

Well, it is. Mild example or not.

It's definitely easier to work that out earlier on, if only to skip the effort of rewrites. Also, if I add, say, classes of tense-marking to a language without it, the end result never feels as organic as if I was picking out which class each item goes to when coining each item. (Alignment is probab...

Large inventories happen. And, offhand, there's nothing ripped off, but let's pretend there's a morphologized centralization process akin to umlaut. Sometimes you just go with the snapshot in time idea without ever expecting it to last a millennium.

Monophthongs
i ɨ ʉ u
e ɘ ɵ o
ɛ ɜ ɞ ɔ
a ɒ

Diphthongs
ɪi ʊu
ɪə ʊə
ɛe ɔo
ɛə ɔə

aɪ aʊ
əɛ əo


The consonantalism is irrelevant, but I picture a middling Romance/Germanic inventory

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."