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eldin raigmore wrote: 24 Jul 2018 03:11 It is beginning to seem to me, that the term “root”, when discussing the diachronic processes of language evolution, and the genetic relatedness of languages in the same family, means something different, from the term “root”, when discussing the synchronic processes of inflection and morphological derivation, and suchlike morphological processes.

So, or not so?
Well, insofar as :lat: and :grc: are concerned, the inflectional 'root' found in the genitive singular of a noun, or in one of the principal parts of a verb, is usually referred to in textbooks and other didactic materials as the stem.

But, certainly, at least as for as :lat: and :grc: verbs go, the principal parts can each have, as the main formant of their respective stems, different grades of a former Proto-Italic or PIE roots.
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BTW,

Looks like Lithuanian has three principal parts
http://www.lituanus.org/1987/87_1_04.htm

I was looking for info on Sanskrit, but stumbled upon this article about Static and Dynamic Principal Parts in both Indo-European languages, but also considering non IE langs as well:

ftp://ftp.cs.engr.uky.edu/cs/techreports/459-06.pdf

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Thanks, @Lambuzhao!

I wonder, also, whether the term “derivation” means something different, when speaking morphologically and synchronically, than when speaking diachronically.

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Do you think a new thread, on such topics as suppletion, roots, derivation, paradigms, and principal parts, or some of those, might be good to start?
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I would be interested in a separate thread on that, since figuring all this stuff out has been a major part of my PIE-inspired conlang. [:)]
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eldin raigmore wrote: 25 Jul 2018 20:52 Do you think a new thread, on such topics as suppletion, roots, derivation, paradigms, and principal parts, or some of those, might be good to start?
[+1]

For my latest project, "Denkurian", I am working on a few verbal periphrases to express some aspects. I want the progressive to be expressed by to be + [PREP] + [INF].

What are some prepositions that would make sense? I was thinking those that mean something like "at" or "in" or perhaps "to". Ideas?

I am also thinking of the following:
prospective aspect: to go + 'to' + [INF]
recent perfect (‘have just’): to come + 'from' + [INF]
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felipesnark wrote: 25 Jul 2018 23:40
eldin raigmore wrote: 25 Jul 2018 20:52 Do you think a new thread, on such topics as suppletion, roots, derivation, paradigms, and principal parts, or some of those, might be good to start?
[+1]

For my latest project, "Denkurian", I am working on a few verbal periphrases to express some aspects. I want the progressive to be expressed by to be + [PREP] + [INF].

What are some prepositions that would make sense? I was thinking those that mean something like "at" or "in" or perhaps "to". Ideas?

I am also thinking of the following:
prospective aspect: to go + 'to' + [INF]
recent perfect (‘have just’): to come + 'from' + [INF]
“For” and “after” might be good, for the progressive or prospective or intended future.

Go for INF
Be after INF
Go for GERUND (or ACTIVE PARTICIPLE)
Be after GERUND (or ACTIVE PARTICIPLE)

Or some such thing.

What do you think?
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KaiTheHomoSapien wrote: 25 Jul 2018 21:49 I would be interested in a separate thread on that, since figuring all this stuff out has been a major part of my PIE-inspired conlang. [:)]
If anyone starts it I will follow it.
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eldin raigmore wrote: 26 Jul 2018 04:24
felipesnark wrote: 25 Jul 2018 23:40
eldin raigmore wrote: 25 Jul 2018 20:52 Do you think a new thread, on such topics as suppletion, roots, derivation, paradigms, and principal parts, or some of those, might be good to start?
[+1]

For my latest project, "Denkurian", I am working on a few verbal periphrases to express some aspects. I want the progressive to be expressed by to be + [PREP] + [INF].

What are some prepositions that would make sense? I was thinking those that mean something like "at" or "in" or perhaps "to". Ideas?

I am also thinking of the following:
prospective aspect: to go + 'to' + [INF]
recent perfect (‘have just’): to come + 'from' + [INF]
“For” and “after” might be good, for the progressive or prospective or intended future.

Go for INF
Be after INF
Go for GERUND (or ACTIVE PARTICIPLE)
Be after GERUND (or ACTIVE PARTICIPLE)

Or some such thing.

What do you think?
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For those interested: I created a separate thread on Indo-European morphology here.
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felipesnark wrote: 25 Jul 2018 23:40
eldin raigmore wrote: 25 Jul 2018 20:52 Do you think a new thread, on such topics as suppletion, roots, derivation, paradigms, and principal parts, or some of those, might be good to start?
[+1]

For my latest project, "Denkurian", I am working on a few verbal periphrases to express some aspects. I want the progressive to be expressed by to be + [PREP] + [INF].

What are some prepositions that would make sense? I was thinking those that mean something like "at" or "in" or perhaps "to". Ideas?

I am also thinking of the following:
prospective aspect: to go + 'to' + [INF]
recent perfect (‘have just’): to come + 'from' + [INF]
You might want to look into Irish in this regard.
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Hello, I'm currently brainstorming on the grammar of a new conlang I'm working on. This conlang is Nom-Acc with a marker on the subject, but I was thinking the following:
What if the subject marker would also tell you the tense? F.e. "He[1SG, +PAST] walk". My question is: would this make sense, what would the pros and cons be (I imagine it would greatly reduce verb conjugations) and are there any languages that do this?
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ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 Hello, I'm currently brainstorming on the grammar of a new conlang I'm working on. This conlang is Nom-Acc with a marker on the subject, but I was thinking the following:
What if the subject marker would also tell you the tense? F.e. "He[1SG, +PAST] walk". My question is: would this make sense, what would the pros and cons be (I imagine it would grestly reduce verb conjugations) and are there any languages that do this?
If the subject is "he", why would it be marked as first person singular?
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ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 Hello, I'm currently brainstorming on the grammar of a new conlang I'm working on. This conlang is Nom-Acc with a marker on the subject, but I was thinking the following:
What if the subject marker would also tell you the tense? F.e. "He[1SG, +PAST] walk". My question is: would this make sense, what would the pros and cons be (I imagine it would greatly reduce verb conjugations) and are there any languages that do this?
English basically has that .... for future tense only though, and it's seen as a mood, not a tense.

I'll walk home by myself.
The tense is marked on the subject, not the verb, so definitely a system like this can work. But I don't know if any langs use that setup exclusively.
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ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 Hello, I'm currently brainstorming on the grammar of a new conlang I'm working on. This conlang is Nom-Acc with a marker on the subject, but I was thinking the following:
What if the subject marker would also tell you the tense? F.e. "He[1SG, +PAST] walk". My question is: would this make sense, what would the pros and cons be (I imagine it would greatly reduce verb conjugations) and are there any languages that do this?
"He's walked, He'll walk, He'd walk" ?

Not exactly the same, but...
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I would think that the principal parts of a noun in Latin would be the two parts like agricola, agricolae, or princeps, principis, that are given in Latin books.
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ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 Hello, I'm currently brainstorming on the grammar of a new conlang I'm working on. This conlang is Nom-Acc with a marker on the subject, but I was thinking the following:
What if the subject marker would also tell you the tense? F.e. "He[1SG, +PAST] walk". My question is: would this make sense, what would the pros and cons be (I imagine it would greatly reduce verb conjugations) and are there any languages that do this?
I know some oceanic languages like Marshallese mark tense on the pronoun. The wikipedia page for Nominal TAM lists several languages that have it, as well as explaining why English is not an example of this (because they are clitics).
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Hausa also does it. And there must be good resources on it somewhere on the internet.

ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 "He[1SG, +PAST] walk"
Did you mean "He[3SG, +PAST]"?
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Creyeditor wrote: 27 Jul 2018 11:55
ErickTyndale wrote: 27 Jul 2018 00:08 "He[1SG, +PAST] walk"
Did you mean "He[3SG, +PAST]"?
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Do the following results for the diphthongs seem reasonable, noting that the palatal onglide palatalizes the preceding consonant and the labiodental onglide is only present in coda?

ai > ɑi > ɑː > ɑ
au > ɑʉ > ɑ(ː)ᶹ > ɑⱽ > ɑ
ei > ᴇi > ᴇː > ᴇ
eu > ᴇʉ > ᴇ.ʉ (alternatively, eu > ᴇʉ > ᴇ(ː)ᶹ > ᴇⱽ > ᴇ)
ia > iɑ > ʲɑ > ᶨɑ
ie > iᴇ > ʲᴇ > ᶨᴇ
io > iⱺ > ʲⱺ > ᶨⱺ
iu > iʉ > ʲʉ > ᶨʉ
oi > ⱺi > ⱺː > ⱺ
ou > ⱺʉ > ⱺ(ː)ᶹ > ⱺⱽ > ⱺ
ua > ʉɑ > ᶹɑ(ː) > ⱽɑ
ue > ʉᴇ > ᶹᴇ(ː) > ⱽᴇ
ui > ʉi > ᶹi(ː) > ⱽi
uo > ʉⱺ > ᶹⱺ(ː) > ⱽⱺ
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For a naturalistic conlang, is it unrealistic to have separate personal endings on verbs for active, middle, and passive voice?

Here is what I have for Denkurian at the moment:
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