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- 16 Jul 2013 18:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Clusivity usage question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1735
Re: Clusivity usage question
There are very few situations where you really have more than one addressees. Plural "you" is often 'you and they' actually. Of course, even the first person can be real plural, e.g. in a choir. I use 2PL at least once weakly in real life, and I think 2PL could be as common as 2SG+3PL on ...
- 10 Jul 2013 14:08
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Clusivity usage question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1735
Re: Clusivity usage question
To clarify: If the speaker is addressing two or more people, and while speaking to them, the speaker wants to say "we" including one or more of the addressees but excluding one or more of the addressees. The speaker is still addressing the addressee(s) that is excluded from the pronoun. Do...
- 08 Jul 2013 21:47
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Clusivity usage question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1735
Clusivity usage question
If you are speaking a language that distinguishes "exclusive we" from "inclusive we", and you are addressing two people, and you want to refer to yourself and one of the addressees but not the other one, what do you do?
What do natlangs do?
What do natlangs do?
- 08 Jul 2013 17:49
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: My first conlang: Anerite
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11481
Re: My first conlang: Anerite
Could it be "John"? My line of thought is that "(ha)shem" is sometimes used as reference to Jehovah indirectly as a reference to his name, and that "John" is from Yoħanan "Jehovah is merciful", and "good" and "merciful" is similar in meanin...
- 08 Jul 2013 15:47
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 660
- Views: 168400
Re: Lexicon milestones
Idioms also count as lexical entries.
But ... Anjelv, is it oligosynthetic? I am interested to know what 116 words you have chosen for it. And I am interested to know how you chose them.
Edit: I found the link in the Anjelv thread. Reading now.
But ... Anjelv, is it oligosynthetic? I am interested to know what 116 words you have chosen for it. And I am interested to know how you chose them.
Edit: I found the link in the Anjelv thread. Reading now.
- 07 Jul 2013 15:15
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Functional gender
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5742
Re: Functional gender
English doesn't have gender, but WALS reports it as having sex-based gender. Swedish has animacy-based gender, but is not included in the survey at WALS. Swedish has sexed pronouns like English. Maybe it's true that around 50% of all languages with gender has animacy-based systems, but half of those...
- 28 May 2013 18:10
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Vowel systems: Why are some more prevalent than others?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2568
Re: Vowel systems: Why are some more prevalent than others?
According to WALS ch3 , vowel inventory size and consonant inventory size are not correlated. Also, say that you have 24 consonants and 8 vowels (32 phonemes), then you have 192 CV syllables and 4608 CVC syllables, but if you have 36 consonants and 3 vowels (39 phonemes) you only have 108 CV syllabl...
Re: Ejnog
If you want /ja/ to be a phoneme you have to let it be a diphthong, namely /ia/ or something along those lines, because a consonant and a vowel cannot be one phoneme. /ia/ (or whatever diphthong you come up with) can be by all means realistically realized as [ja], though. No, whether you transcribe...
- 27 Nov 2012 13:01
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Donkey sentence
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2571
Re: Donkey sentence
But "that donkey" is definite. Maybe this could be a better choice:
3. A donkey is beaten by every farmer who owns it.
or
3. Every farmer who owns a certain donkey beats it.
?
No, sentence 3 and 4 was made by me.
3. A donkey is beaten by every farmer who owns it.
or
3. Every farmer who owns a certain donkey beats it.
?
No, sentence 3 and 4 was made by me.
- 26 Nov 2012 17:32
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Donkey sentence
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2571
Donkey sentence
How does your language handle donkey sentences , like English or in some other way? :eng: 1. Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it . [[ there are several donkeys involved, each one with its own owner, and the owner is the one that beats it ]] :eng: 2. Every police officer who arrested a murderer i...
- 26 Nov 2012 10:04
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Symbols used in Sound Change
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4362
Re: Symbols used in Sound Change
/ separates the change from the condition. E.g. e > a / C_C means that [e] changes to [a] between consonants. # represents a word boundary, thus e > a / #_ means that [e] changes to [a] in word initial position. * in regular expressions represents zero or more of any letter, thus I guess e > a / #C*...
- 17 Nov 2012 12:21
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The door opened, the door was opened... (voice)
- Replies: 82
- Views: 25362
Re: The door opened, the door was opened... (voice)
What about instruments? I propose the following additional challenges: 8) The key opened the door. [instrument as subject] 9) Peter opened the door with the key. [agent subject and instrument object] 10) The key opened. [instrument as subject, no other argument] 11) Peter opened with the key. [agent...
- 17 Nov 2012 11:55
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1035688
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Example?Shrdlu wrote:a lack of open vowels is attested.
- 28 Sep 2012 10:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Large numbers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2280
Re: Large numbers
What about your conlangs? How do they handle large numbers? Long scale, short scale, or something else? Does anyone's system of large numbers go by "successive squaring"? My conlang has independent roots for each of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 144, 12^4, 12^8, 12^16, 12^32, 12^64
- 13 Sep 2012 11:32
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Right to left conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2563
Re: Right to left conlang
If scribblemama already has a font of the conscript, then installing AbiWord seems like the easiest solution. Could you describe the direction changing functionality of AbiWord further? How do you do to write with a boustrophedon with it? What happens when you export a document to HTML? Do it suppor...
- 12 Sep 2012 12:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Right to left conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2563
Re: Right to left conlang
Put simply: If you want to write in another alphabet on your computer, e.g. Arabic, you need to change which mapping the operating system (which might be Windows in your case) uses between keys on your keyboard and the binary codes that represents the letters. The binary code for Arabic ش is differe...
- 11 Sep 2012 21:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Right to left conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2563
Re: Right to left conlang
I haven't tried http://fontstruct.com/, but it should support Unicode according to the introductory video. I don't know what method you used for your font, or if your script fits into the squarish grid, but it might work.
- 11 Sep 2012 21:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Right to left conlang
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2563
Re: Right to left conlang
2-4 kind of beat me to it, but I was going to say that you could map your conscript glyphs to e.g. Arabic code points, and then use an Arabic keyboard layout or make a custom keyboard layout for it. But I haven't ever made any font that counts and I'm far from an expert, so I can't give you much mor...
- 11 Sep 2012 21:11
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1317714
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I have a book teaching Swahili. I have only read the beginning of it so far. So far, word-initial syllabic nasals seem to be common. The book also explicitly states that the stress is always on the penultimate syllable, which may be a syllabic nasal, which then is stressed.
- 02 Sep 2012 11:47
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: ol: VOC or PR?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2454
Re: ol: VOC or PR?
So, I've got a particle that has two functions, vocative and proper noun particle (ol, as in my username). But I'm not sure what to do when glossing it. Do I use VOC even in a position of PR, or do I alternate depending on usage, VOC for vocative, PR for proper noun? Or would I combine them like so...