The CBB

The standard example is 'Kannst du mir ein Stück Brot zu Fuß geben?' 'Can you give me a piece of bread 'by foot', meaning without a plate or anything. There is still some movement involved and I haven't really heard it in other contexts. I vaguely recall that in some North American language 'by foot...

Adjectives Attributive adjectives can precede or follow the noun they modify. The distinction between the two positions is based on restrictiveness. Restrictive adjectives are those that help identify the referent of a noun. They restrict the set of possible referents and provide crucial informatio...

tl;dr on verbal syntax: A syntactic distinction between semantically (potentially) identical direct (unmarked) and indirect object position (introduced by a particle). Indirect objects are different in that adverbials can intervene between them and their verb, plus indirect objects can be cognate o...

Indo-European and some other languages use prepositions as verb prefixes to code different adverbial functions (lexical affixes which I've been interested in for a while). What other morphemes could develop to lexical affixes and still preserve their original functio? Multi-purpose morphemes are on...

I am pretty sure that I had a similar idea once. Along with a binary language and a square/quaternary, etc.

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Ergo, we can only be decently sure that /a/ does alternate for roots, but we can't be certain if it's actually neutral for suffixes. As for Shuluun Höh or other languages, I haven't found anything. The paper seems to build a lot of its case on Sibe specifically. Just a minor addition. I would guess...

Can it do -@? So only apply if feature values don't match?

Voiced codas can lengthen vowels, but I wonder if long vowels can voice codas? I searched P-Base and I got eight results for such processes. Here are the most convincing cases. Pech (Paya) Rule /k/ ~ [ɡ] / long X__ Estonian Rule X → voiced / resonant__resonant, VV__resonant Macuxi Rule X → voiced /...

@Nel Fie: I am still not sure if I understand the relation between the concrete data and the high-level abstract generalizations. But I can't think of many concrete questions. Going back to my answer to the original question: Does /a/ alternate in these languages or is it neutral? @Sal: I think, you...

I am not sure yet how they define good and evil. They would need to do this in order to make the concept of balance useful. The definitions are probably subject to change in-world and might also depend on the opinions of the current leader. Btw, I am tempted to say that the title of their leader is ...

Sorry, I don't know anything about this specific language. My guess is that there are many more topic-prominent lamguages in the macroarea.

That's where I read about Shuluun Höh. I encountered some Sibe data in a more computational paper. But the original sources are cited in the source you give, IIRC.

Well, black as in operating in the dark or in secret, I guess. Haven't heard of the necromancers, will read up on it. The Black Angels are of course at least partly inspired by the Jedi in Star Wars. I guess the necromancers are more about balancing the cycle of life and death come to think of it. ...

Which makes sense because definiteness could be construed of as a kind of information structure. It should definitely be added to the list.

Well, black as in operating in the dark or in secret, I guess. Haven't heard of the necromancers, will read up on it. The Black Angels are of course at least partly inspired by the Jedi in Star Wars.

Fredauon Fun Fact #36: The secret society known as The Black Angels operates on all of Fredauon. They were originally founded in the area south of The Great Mountains and their ideology assumes a natural balance between good and evil. They usually restrict their operations to assassinating leaders ...

What do you think of this vowel harmony system? Is it plausible? It's /a e i ɤ o ɯ u/ /o u/ are rounded /ɤ ɯ/ are unrounded /a e i/ are neutral /a/ is usually unrounded/back in rounding/backness harmony systems and paired (or re-paired) with a back rounded or front unrounded vowel. Are there any ot...

Could it be interpreted as marking the more prominent argument acts on the less prominent argument and vice versa?

@Davush: Sorry, I must've misread your post.