The CBB

Just as I finally got $60 in the bank that's not already ear-marked for some bill or other, I got a $100 traffic fine for not having my updated registration stickers on my license plate.

Damn.

What's verb attraction? I keep running into papers that name it but refuse to define it. (I'm thinking it has something to do with verb inflection but I'm not terribly sure.) It's a term in the Generative (Chomskyian) tradition. They traditionally use terms and abbreviations they never explain. The...

1. Does ˀekwe mean water? 2. Does ˀekwe mean horse? Edit: 3. Is it a Pacific States language? 4a. Does kannis mean thy mother? 4b. Or your mother? 4c. Or mother? 5. Does monse mean moose? 6. Or is Monse the name of a group of people (say, some of the Delawares)? 7. Is the language a relative of Gree...

In Ergative/Absolutive languages, both the Intransitive Subject and the Transitive Patient are Absolutive. If the language uses case-marking that usually means that both the Intransitive Subject and the Transitive Patient have the unmarked form of the noun. In Ergative/Absolutive languages, the Tran...

thaen wrote:I have been looking at ergative-absolutive morphology, and I am quite confused by agent, patient, and so on. If anyone can clarify or put it into layman's terms, that would help a lot. :-s

You might try reading this.

Is its home ground mostly between about 20 degrees North latitude and about 50 degrees North latitude?

Is its home ground mostly between about 75 degrees East longitude and about 130 degrees East longitude?

Is it related to Ugaritic or Ugric or Uighur?

Is it a Turkic language?

(Copied from the "Random Ideas: Morphosyntax" thread.) Anticipatory ("Proleptic") Agreement. An attributive adjective modifying a noun agrees with it in definiteness (or/and specificity) and(/or) gender (and/or possibly other things, like case and number). An adverb modifying tha...

I especially enjoyed reading the last three posts, and I agree with what they say. @Thaen, in my last post, I didn't intend to be talking about "rules". Rather, they are, metaphorically, suggested ingredients for enhanced polysyntheticness. Naturally you can leave out some of them. Someone...

Is its home ground north and east of Turkey and Iran?

Is it a Mongolic language?

I do not have a definitive name yet nor is it anymore than a loose jumble of notes on a not so very bloglike site not being blogged about. (It's just somewhere to put it other than an easily looseable flash drive) Thanks. Well, I'm interested so far. And it's not so loose or so jumbled as some. So ...

MrKrov wrote:Well, this is the Q&A Thread for conlangs...... Mine.
It's in the image you quoted.

Thanks.
Have you named the conlang yet?
It seems you're tracking it on a blog -- what's the URL for the blog? Or am I wrong and you aren't blogging about it?

This is a great thread. Not really. You have to justify the idea that your giant words are actually giant words, and not just normal sentences written without spaces. Thank you. Any ideas on how to do that? For one thing you shouldn't have any "adjectives". Either all your adjectival ideas...

You don't say so here, but, is it true that in your 'lang, as in Old English, the phones [f ] and [v ] are allophones of the phoneme /f/? So that <f> is pronounced [v ] when between vowels? In particular <sefun> /sefun/ is pronounced [sev@n] or [sevVn] or something like that? [/size] <Sefun> is act...

Anticipatory ("Proleptic") Agreement. An attributive adjective modifying a noun agrees with it in definiteness (or/and specificity) and(/or) gender (and/or possibly other things, like case and number). An adverb modifying that adjective, especially an adverb-of-degree, agrees with the adj...

MrKrov wrote:http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb3 ... /blarg.jpg

(1) What's that from? Especially, what language is it about? A natlang or a conlang? Yours or someone else's?
(2) Did you have a "quick question"? If so, what was it?

Do classifiers usually come between a modifier and N(P) Chinese style or can they also come after a noun. Is something like [Num [N CL]] attested? Does WALS.info say anything about it? See http://wals.info/feature/combined/55A/89A . Look at http://wals.info/feature/combined/55A/89A?tg_format=map an...

Þa Sefun Rijcarin Sƿirijcar 1 - Ƿæſtrijca /wæstrikɑ/ 2 – Norrijca /nor:i:kɑ/ 3 - Øſtarijca /østɑri:kɑ/ 4 – Ȝęffȝrijca /gɛfri:kɑ/ 5 – Ardarijca /ɑrdɑri:kɑ/ 6 - Albionrijca /ɑlbi.onri:kɑ/ 7 - Francrijca /frɑŋkri:kɑ/ [/size] That by itself is a great example of your language and of its script! I reall...

Is it a Tungusic language?
Is it normally written in Cyrillic?
Or the Turkish alphabet (a variant of the Latin alphabet)?
Or the Arabic abjad?
Is it related to a language spoken in Crimea?

Is or was it spoken near some Sino-Tibetan language(s)?
So that it has been influenced by them?
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Do people who think there's such a genetic grouping as Altaic consider this language an Altaic language?

What causes nominative and ergative alignments? They're both more economical than tripartite, and more economical than "Austronesian/Phillippine" or "Split-Transitive", so that's part of the "cause". Why Nom or Erg instead of Active/Stative or Split-Intransitive or Spl...