Hi! ... Definitely not. :-) ... There's concensus: my girlfriend and I both heard: '... why you are sohrie', pronounced with a strong German accent (there was...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2005 9:24 am
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Thank you very much, Markus. I have just read a couple of articles by Halldor Sigurdsson of the University of Lund and by Paul Kiparsky of Stanford University....
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Aug 1, 2005 2:21 pm
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Hello, David, thanks for writing. ... listing ... cases ... bizarre. ... Sorry about that. Read my answer to Markus Miekk-Oja to see what I know now that would...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Aug 1, 2005 2:38 pm
132858
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:54:39 +0300, John Vertical ... I'm guessing by /444/ you mean a trill with three contacts? Taps/flaps are ballistic movements and by...
Paul Roser
pkroser@...
Aug 1, 2005 3:52 pm
132859
... [snip] ... [snip] ... Isn't /_r_o/ (raised+lowered) a contradiction? I assume you mean /_r_0/ (raised+voiceless) which is kinda supported by all "/_o/" ...
Simon Clarkstone
simon.clarkstone@...
Aug 1, 2005 5:00 pm
132860
Hallo! ... One question: why do you call it a "constructed NATURAL human language"? This IMHO only makes sense to say in the case of a fictional human ethnic...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Aug 1, 2005 6:38 pm
132861
Hi! ... O_O! Very good question. I don't know. I copied that text snippet from S9. And there, from S7... I think I'll delete that word, then. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:03 pm
132862
... Ho you're right! that's what I meant. ... Thanks for correcting my mistakes - Max...
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Aug 1, 2005 7:13 pm
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... Or replace it by "naturalistic". I had the same conundrum once. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:35 pm
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... Basically quantitative vowel distinctions have been replaced by ... There is an [A] allophone of /Q/. BTW |q| is /R/ or /G\/. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:35 pm
132865
Hi! ... Well, Jörg is right: it is not naturalistic at all. :-) And I actually would not label any of my conlangs 'naturalistic'. Too much engineering in all...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:56 pm
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Hi! My first longer sound sample in a conlang is online. It's the Tower of Babel in Da Mätz se Basa: http://www.theiling.de/conlang/s9/s_04.html#01 ...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2005 8:20 pm
132867
... My Tairezazh does essentially the same. I've never thought of this as voices; indeed, the original reason for introducing it was getting rid of passives. A...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Aug 2, 2005 8:02 am
132868
Hi! ... Let me express my view that this is at least the same process implemented by voices. Preventing it to be called a voice system which be a missing...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 2, 2005 9:36 am
132869
... Is there a name for a voice that drops the subject of a transitive and keeps the object as an object? ... As far as Tairezazh is concerned, both...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Aug 2, 2005 12:14 pm
132870
This is somewhat OT, but I am now the proud(?) owner of my very own copy of _Incubus_ on DVD. It was in the $1 bin at Kroger, amazingly. It's billed as the...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Aug 2, 2005 2:25 pm
132871
Dictionaries by Butler and Benson agree. ... De: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> Al: <CONLANG@...> Sendita: Mardon, 02an de auxgusto 2005,...
Ph.D.
phil@...
Aug 2, 2005 2:47 pm
132872
... Yes. ... "Ballistic" movements? And you really mean it would be possible to differentiate not just taps/percussives vs. flaps, but also single-contact...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 2, 2005 5:03 pm
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... It's not IMPOSSIBLE, just really really difficult (and the voicing will be very weak.) But yes, I did mean /_</. Looks like I don't know nearly as much ...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 2, 2005 5:20 pm
132874
Hello everyone, especially Tom Wier, Henrik Thieling, and Markus Miekk-Oja. Surely I can't have been the first person to ask this question; I looked at many...
tomhchappell
tomhchappell@...
Aug 2, 2005 6:42 pm
132875
Hello, everyone. This question is about number of arguments, but not about ditransitive verbs. Which grammatical categories can take more than one argument? In...
Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Aug 2, 2005 6:44 pm
132876
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:00:16 +0300, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> ... A term I've come across in the literature - best definition I could find ...
Paul Roser
pkroser@...
Aug 2, 2005 7:28 pm
132877
Hello, everyone. [WHY I'M ASKING] I am thinking of putting in my first conlang a set of verbs that require two nominal core arguments but take no direct...
Tom Chappell
tomhchappell@...
Aug 2, 2005 7:51 pm
132878
On 8/2/05, Tom Chappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote: Does anyone on the list know anything about natlangs with Bivalent ... I think I may have mentioned it...
Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Aug 3, 2005 4:21 am
132879
... Hmm... "Between you and me" "Between me and you" Seems to me that there might be a slight difference between the topicality of the arguments: the focus...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 3, 2005 9:16 am
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... Thanks for the answers - I have come across the term "vibrant" already a few times, but I wasn't sure if it included all 3 of trills, taps & flaps. I have...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 3, 2005 9:21 am
132881
... Hi, Tom! This is long and assumes some knowledge of syntax. If you want, I can probably create a brief explanation of the important stuff and toss it up on...
Christopher Wright
dhasenan@...
Aug 3, 2005 1:50 pm
132882
... Well, intransitive verbs and most adjectives are one-argument predicates. Everything else has two or more. But you mean more than two arguments, I think. ...
Christopher Wright
dhasenan@...
Aug 3, 2005 2:29 pm
132883
... In early work in OT-syntax, such as the aforementioned article, this is sometimes called "Passive2", to distinguish it from the construction Passive1 in...
Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Aug 3, 2005 5:17 pm
132884
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:20:54 +0300, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> ... I'd thought it did, but I doubt that it is used consistently - some authors ...
