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- 09 Feb 2018 17:00
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: One hour challenge - Da Vinci Quote
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5267
One hour challenge - Da Vinci Quote
I ran this challenge on a conlanging chat, but I figured maybe some people here wanted in on the fun. The challenge is this: Within one hour, create a conlang sketch sufficient to translate the following text idiomatically: Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes ...
- 07 Feb 2018 00:36
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340497
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
If you/whoever divide(s) it into 3 groups like that, then it depends on your/the author's definition. For example, trigger systems are definitely syntactic-based marking based on the usual morphosyntactic alignment categories, but your definition/explanation above seems to exclude it within any cat...
- 06 Feb 2018 21:26
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340497
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I myself don't see the particular distinction you make as being of any use. It appears to be circular and not lending itself into anything meaningful. It doesn’t come from me, the syntactic vs semantic based marking (which I don’t see any circularity in) comes from Dixon, he has an entire chapter a...
- 06 Feb 2018 17:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340497
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So there’s syntactic based marking like good old nom/acc and erg/abs and the likes, where some NPs are cast to S/A/P which then receive case marking as appropriate. There’s semantic based marking, where this intermediate step is skipped and nouns are marked based on their semantic roles (agent, pat...
- 06 Feb 2018 12:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1340497
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
So there’s syntactic based marking like good old nom/acc and erg/abs and the likes, where some NPs are cast to S/A/P which then receive case marking as appropriate. There’s semantic based marking, where this intermediate step is skipped and nouns are marked based on their semantic roles (agent, pati...
- 04 Feb 2018 21:43
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Sprachbund Theory
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5140
- 04 Feb 2018 19:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2087
Re: Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
Next up: derivational morphology. I lied. I can’t really think of a way to make an interesting forum post on derivational morphology anyway, and I’ve kinda figured out what I wanted to in the meantime. However, another thing has come to mind that needs some working on, and that is the writing syste...
- 01 Feb 2018 16:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The worst sounding natlang ever
- Replies: 234
- Views: 51904
- 30 Jan 2018 15:47
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: each other
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11979
Re: each other
I’ll take this separate set of sentences instead to show the differences: :eng: English The children talked to them. The children talked to themselves. The children talked to each other. :che: Swiss German A different group is referred to by the normal third person plural pronoun. The “emphatic” pro...
- 29 Jan 2018 17:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1664971
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Picking up the mess that is my conlang after a few months hiatus. Put all my lexicon into a Dictionary made in LaTex, surprisingly easy, once you know how to do it that is. https://i.imgur.com/nE85JT3.png I would really suggest you fiddle with those paragraphs a bit. Making the par-indent go away w...
- 22 Jan 2018 23:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: The worst sounding natlang ever
- Replies: 234
- Views: 51904
Re: The worst sounding natlang ever
I find Pirahã to sound utterly repetitive (not surprising with the tiny phonological inventory, but even then seemingly every second syllable has /ai/ as the nucleus. Never liked the sound of Spanish very much, can't really pinpoint why. And while I love me some clicks I've yet to find a recording o...
- 20 Jan 2018 12:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1664971
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Picking up the mess that is my conlang after a few months hiatus. Put all my lexicon into a Dictionary made in LaTex, surprisingly easy, once you know how to do it that is. https://i.imgur.com/nE85JT3.png I would really suggest you fiddle with those paragraphs a bit. Making the par-indent go away w...
- 19 Jan 2018 15:49
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Wants and needs
- Replies: 54
- Views: 18826
Re: Wants and needs
Swiss German
I brucha Geld.
[i 'pɾuːxɐ 'g̊ɛlt]
1s need-1s money
“I need money”
I wett Geld ha.
[i 'ʋetː 'g̊ɛlt haː]
1s want.1s money have.INF
“I want to have money”
Miar fehlt’s an Geld.
[mɪɐɾ fɛːlts ɐn 'g̊ɛlt]
1s.DAT lack.3s-3sn at money
“I lack money”
I brucha Geld.
[i 'pɾuːxɐ 'g̊ɛlt]
1s need-1s money
“I need money”
I wett Geld ha.
[i 'ʋetː 'g̊ɛlt haː]
1s want.1s money have.INF
“I want to have money”
Miar fehlt’s an Geld.
[mɪɐɾ fɛːlts ɐn 'g̊ɛlt]
1s.DAT lack.3s-3sn at money
“I lack money”
- 13 Jan 2018 10:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1054988
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Obviously /k ʔ/ ⟨k k̂⟩ ← that’s a combining diacritic, this forum’s font is bad.DesEsseintes wrote: ↑12 Jan 2018 14:31 /m n/
/t k ʔ/
/h/
/r w/
/a i/
Circumflexes should feature somehow.
- 12 Jan 2018 20:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2087
Re: Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
I really like your way of presentation.I have a question though. What is the pragmatic effect of your antipassive? Is it used for indefinite objects and things like that? This might have a bearing on your problem, IINM. Its main use is simply to feed the pivot, or to allow omission of the direct ob...
- 12 Jan 2018 18:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2087
Thoughts on Problematic Stuff in Mesak
Yes, I know I have a thread somewhere on here that already has some Mesak stuff in it. But iirc it also has things on Naksult’ and UPK in there, which no longer are part of the same conworld, and it’s such an old thread that it’s probably full of misinformation anyway. So I’m just making a new one. ...
- 11 Jan 2018 17:56
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Does anybody else get bored of conworlds easily?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13264
Re: Does anybody else get bored of conworlds easily?
I used to have that problem; now I kinda have the opposite where I never feel like working on new stuff (even though it would be interesting) and would rather just go back and add details to Mesak and its world.
- 11 Jan 2018 11:18
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 455182
Re: Yay or Nay?
1) Marked absolutive is extremely rare to the point where it was for a long time believed to be virtually impossible. It doesn’t seem to bring with it any advantages either. Also bear in mind that there is a difference between a true marked absolutive (which makes ergative the default case and there...
- 10 Jan 2018 14:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 158
- Views: 110134
Re: Surprising cognates
:che: kheia “to fall” as well as :lux: geheien “to throw” are cognate with :nld: huwen “to marry”, from *hīwijaną “to marry”. No cognate in Standard German that I am aware of, and the English cognates have also fallen out of use. This comes from a sequence of pretty wild semantic shifts that can be ...
- 15 Sep 2017 16:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Yay or Nay? [2011–2018]
- Replies: 2876
- Views: 455182
Re: Yay or Nay?
Alright, I have a somewhat difficult decision to make: I feel the need to change a feature of Mesak that has been established since essentially day 1. As such I would like to ask for some feedback. Right now, Mesak’s ergative case is directly derived from the absolutive case via a possessive constru...