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by Sequor
08 Sep 2022 17:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347152

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I have the following phoneme inventory (inspired by Ket): t k q b d f s h m n l r j y i u ø e o ä ({t k q b d f s h})({m n l r j}){y i u ø e o ä}({s h N}) What morpho-phonological alternations could appear between the consonant phonemes? There is no palatalization, which is the usual suspect for mo...
by Sequor
02 Sep 2022 22:15
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325173

Re: False cognates

Hebrew דֶּרֶךְ dérekh 'road'
Russian доро́га 'road'
Mandarin 道路 dàolù 'road'
by Sequor
27 Aug 2022 04:57
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325173

Re: False cognates

Korean 많이 'a lot', pronounced [mani]
English many
by Sequor
26 Aug 2022 22:48
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282030

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Omzinesý wrote: 26 Aug 2022 17:22 How is Arabic Idhaafa stressed? Is it phonetically one or two words?
I'd say it is usually two words, except for the notable case of the idhaafa of ðuu + noun, naturally since those are so idiomatic (and the possessed "noun" is so short).
by Sequor
26 Aug 2022 22:46
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: AMA on Indonesian
Replies: 68
Views: 27043

Re: AMA on Indonesian

I can also attest people ask questions in similar ways, with a similar intonation pattern, in Spanish. ¿Así que vas a...? 'So you're going to...?' Although I assume the most interesting part is that this is the standard way of asking things in Papua Indonesian, lacking interrogative pronouns/adverbs...
by Sequor
25 Aug 2022 09:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347152

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Probably irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but given that ablative forms were lost for the most part in the Romance languages, isn't it much simpler to derive the gerund from the accusative form -andum rather than the dative/ablative form? I don't see why Latin couldn't retain the -ndō ending, ...
by Sequor
24 Aug 2022 17:19
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155209

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

I was reading something on tone circles in South America and started to wonder if there could be vowel circles or consonant circles. So in a tone circle, tones alternate in some context in a circular fashion. T1 becomes T2, T2 becomes T3, T3 becomes T4, T4 becomes T5 and T5 becomes T1. A vowel exam...
by Sequor
24 Aug 2022 17:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347152

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

No I didn't mean that. My understanding is that -ndo is the phonological descendant of both Latin converb -ndo (which still was part of the paradigm of the verbal noun called gerund, at least morphologically) and Latin participle -nte. Correct me if -ndo was spread to adnominal functions long after...
by Sequor
24 Aug 2022 15:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347152

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

In English and Spanish participles and converbs are identical. In Spanish the two merged because of sound changes and are distinct historically. I think you meant to say that in English they were distinct but then merged (Old English -ende ~ -inde versus -ung ~ -ing). In Spanish it's just the Latin...
by Sequor
07 Aug 2022 00:08
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325173

Re: False cognates

English corner (a borrowing from Anglo-Norman / Old French, derived from Latin cornū 'horn')
Sanskrit कोण koṇa- 'corner' (a borrowing from Dravidian)
by Sequor
02 Aug 2022 14:30
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: A paper I wrote on Farsi Ezafe
Replies: 4
Views: 14962

Re: A paper I wrote on Farsi Ezafe

I wonder, does the ezafe Pure Morphological Suffix -e ever co-occur with the indefinite Phrasal Suffix -i? Say, something like ketab-e-(j)i Maryam, 'a book of Maryam's'. If this is ungrammatical, how are 'Maryam's book' (in which book has a definite reference) and 'a book of Maryam's' distinguished...
by Sequor
29 Jul 2022 23:04
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: have you found a plausible way to explain something unusual?
Replies: 6
Views: 703

Re: have you found a plausible way to explain something unusual?

I don't think I ever do really unusual things, so I've never been asked or felt the need to explain something diachronically. :mrgreen: That said, maybe my standards for something to qualify as "unusual" are quite high? I once had a conlang where I had verbs hold regressive stress (as far ...
by Sequor
26 Jul 2022 00:27
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325173

Re: False cognates

English mirror < Old French mireor (literally "watcher") Arabic مرآة mirʔā 'mirror' (formed with the mi- instrument prefix and the root r-ʔ-y, cf. the verb رأى‎ raʔā 'to see') Although French Wiktionary informs me that at least one etymologist (Antoine-Paulin Pihan) thinks the French word ...
by Sequor
22 Jul 2022 09:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 206950

Re: What did you accomplish today?

This is my favourite recurrent thread. I don't do conlanging anymore so I never have anything to post, but it's still inspiring for me to get things done in my natlang studies.
by Sequor
18 Jul 2022 15:47
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282030

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Sorry, it was really late when I posted the question so I kinda misworded it and what I meant by context. I meant that there's no context of establishing a second-person plural object, not sentences just floating in a void. A second-person plural object may well have been referred to earlier and wo...
by Sequor
18 Jul 2022 10:17
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 282030

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Sorry for the incredibly stupid question(s), but... I'm trying to learn Spanish again, now more than just to understand a little but to be able to use it myself in a grammatically correct way, and... If the accusative of ustedes is just los / las depending on gender (and can be suffixed to the verb...
by Sequor
06 Jul 2022 16:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347152

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

One thing I used for Proto-Skawlas (which has a similar ablaut system) was inpsired by something that Nortaneous had posted, I think, over on the ZBB about a South American language(?) where individual morphemes could be "stressed" or "unstressed" and this then affected the stre...
by Sequor
05 Jul 2022 19:05
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Con-Script Development Centre
Replies: 1180
Views: 253815

Re: Con-Script Development Centre

I should just start calling you hieroglyph man in space. Good work, as per usual...
by Sequor
04 Jul 2022 18:24
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: a question about internally headed relative clauses
Replies: 10
Views: 1361

Re: a question about internally headed relative clauses

Hold up there! It's perfectly possible to construct apparently internally-headed relative clauses (IHRCs) with relative pronouns in them (modifying or in apposition to the head). Some people claim that Greek has them. And although the IHRC contains no gap, it's possible for the matrix to have a gap...
by Sequor
28 Jun 2022 21:08
Forum: Teach & Share
Topic: A note on urban population thresholds
Replies: 18
Views: 18314

Re: A note on urban population thresholds

Very interesting text with all those comparisons! Just wanted to share this graph about ancient and late antique Rome I saw someone share elsewhere: https://i.imgur.com/VKqTCVW.jpg Source: Twine, Kevin. 1992. "The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity". Middle States Geographer, vol. 25....