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An unnamed lang Vowels (The inventory happens to be like that of Pashto.) i u <i u> e ə o <ai e au> æ ɒ <a o> Diphthongs ei~æi, eu~æu, oi~ɒi, ou~ɒu <ei, eu, oi, ou> (The first component can thus be closed or mid.) The stress always lies on the second syllable. - ə only appears in unstressed syllable...

Verb morphology This post will not be the final or complete description. Dnor morphology is extremely simple. The root is CV(C) and all but one prefixes are CV-. The Middle voice prefix is just s-. Compounding does not happen and all verbs have thus just one root. The verb template is -4/-3 Middle ...

I have modality obligatorily marked on the verb, and I have three basic moods: actual/realis [REAL], potential/irrealis [IRR], and counterfactual [CONTF]. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what verb should be marked irrealis and which should be marked as counterfactual when it comes to if-th...

I wanna make a lang with the stress on the second syllable. According to WALS 16 languages of 220 have it. South America: Mapudungun, Aroana Nirth America: Stoney, Dakota, Paiute (Southern), Pomo (Eastern) Europe: Basque (Bidasoa Valley), Basque (Oñati) New Guinea: Tolai, Siroi Australia: Arrernte (...

I think I'll change the forms that used to be locatives to associatives and have a new locative form -n, which can affect the stem sporadically. The paradigm of words ending in non-obstruents. han 'donkey' case word ending NOM INDEF han - NOM DEF ha'n <'> ASS INDEF hantsi -si ASS DEF hanta -ta LOC I...

Is the semantic distinction between the two basicly that of tense in modern Tsayyākan? Or aspect? Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still? It will probably have become mostly a tense distinction, augmented by various copula-like verbs. Perhaps subordinate clauses still use some...

Please don't use the word "experiencer" for 'intransitive subject'. It's WRONG . Rather, "experiencer" is a semantic role that may or may not be an intransitive subject. Many, in fact, most intransitive subjects aren't experiencers. [:x] [:$] [>_<] Thank you; I've looked it up, ...

There is a polypersonal agreement. sg1O sg2O 3O pl1O pl2O sg1S - -ne -i - -yol sg2S -ho - -la -se - 3S -lan -li -∅ -fa -kjul pl1S - - -ta - -kar pl2S -hon - -ti -hor - If there is no object, the third person object form is used. Is there no pl3S or pl3O? Third person agreement does not distinguish ...

Verb pattern preverb - incorporated noun - root - mood - person Preverb is something that is called lexical affix. As I said in the other thread, they are still a bit mystery to me. Incorporated nouns are reduced somehow. Verb roots are usually monosyllabic and CVC [n, l, r] . They are something bet...

Arayaz wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024 19:10 Nice. I love /eu/.

Can no voiced obstruents occur between vowels? Or is it only certain ones that cannot (and thus cannot be geminated)?

Voiced obstruents /b v d z ɟ g/ occur in VC[r, n, l]_V, nowhere else. This imitates things in Quenya.

Karhionza is my newest project. I guess it will not last long but who cares. It is an attempt to combine a Tolkien style phonology with a non-Tolkien morphosyntax. p f t s c k h b v d z ɟ g m n (ŋ) l r w j i u e o ä Maximal syllable structure is: CVR, where R is {l r n}. The second line of consonant...

Nouns have personal prefixes Person prefixes are simple k(a)- SG1 c(a)- SG2 s(a)- SG3 hu- PL1 cu- PL2 su- PL3 When combined with the definite form, they express possessor. When combined with the indefinite form, they express copular subject. c-lakk SG2-person 'You are a person.' Adjectives are also ...

Is the semantic distinction between the two basicly that of tense in modern Tsayyākan?
Or aspect?
Or is there something to do with orientation/alignment still?

pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstruent or lacks, the syllable has one of two tones (rising or loweri...

Case system for a lang. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta ERG-ABL kanta-r LOC kanta-sa ESS kanta-n ASS kanta-ri I'm boldly copying the idea of prefixal-reduplication as a plural marker from Davush's Tsayyākan. Kanta 'house' ABS kanta-nda ERG-ABL kanta-nda-r LOC kanta-nda-sa ESS kanta-nda-n ASS kanta-nda-ri Po...

ATM my LaTex document of Dlor grammar has 3 3 subordinate conjunctions. One dimension is role: complement/relative, adverbial, some kind of contrast. The second one is tense: simultaneous, anterior, posterior. The third one is mood: factual, non-factual, counterfactual. A natural system is not that ...

What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...

With CVCVC roots, this general pattern of CV:CVC vs. CVCV:C is spread analogically and/or by haplology: makas- sweep mākas- sweeping (not *māmakas) makās- swept (not *makasās I like that. Reminds me of Arabic, but not too much. Being participles, perhaps they were also marked for number. If they to...

and in part because while I was aware of the existence of affixes having an adverbial function, I didn’t really know how to incorporate them, and I was not fully aware of their range of potential functions or what an important feature they can be in polysynthetic languages (as set forth in the arti...

What language(s) are both polysynthetic (in the sense of having verbs with very many morphemes) and fusional (in the sense that morpheme boundaries are blurred and much is expressed with mutations and other such processes)? Several NAM languages are (e.g. Kashaya, Pawnee, ...) – on the surface at l...