... ...and then only when these refer to future time. But your statement needs another qualification: the compulsory use of the optative is restricted to...
R A Brown
ray@...
Apr 1, 2008 9:41 am
151895
... Ah, yes. Saying "If only I had come home in time to save her!" would indeed be a desired non-factual condition, but not an optative candidate in Greek. I...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Apr 1, 2008 10:10 am
151896
The passive (as such) is not very popular in French (and how can you have a passive in an intransitive sentence?): one tends to say "on m'a vu" for "I was...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Apr 1, 2008 1:01 pm
151897
... Quite right - it would be aorist _indicative_ - at least in Classical Attic and, hence, the Koine. Homer never used the indicative for wishes of any kind....
R A Brown
ray@...
Apr 1, 2008 1:19 pm
151898
... Just for interest, here's a "definition" of the distinction from a discussion of certain languages of Central Sulawesi (Celebes)-- "The two modes...[in...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Apr 1, 2008 7:38 pm
151899
Are we talking about principles and parameters here? I'm dubious, since: 1. The list never seems to be complete. New parameters always seem to be required to...
Christopher Bates
chrisdb@...
Apr 2, 2008 7:47 am
151900
The life sciences (I'm thinking especially of palaeontology here) use cladistics as a way of organising the taxonomy. Possibly something along those lines, but...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Apr 2, 2008 9:01 am
151901
Many years ago I proposed a "Language Code," which was intended to provide a typological profile for a given constructed or natural language. It should still...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Apr 2, 2008 1:43 pm
151902
... Here's Take 4: http://archives.conlang.info/ge/suezhae/qhuevhunwhian.html Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 2, 2008 2:58 pm
151903
Thanks, Philip. A couple of things occurred to me as I reread my deathless prose from 2003. In that version of the Language Code, I have: M morphology a...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Apr 2, 2008 3:45 pm
151904
... I had to do some digging to find what you were probably referring to. To save others the work, I think you're thinking of ...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 2, 2008 4:13 pm
151905
There is a book by D. N. S. Bhat called "The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood". What the book claims is essentially that many (most?) languages can be...
Christopher Bates
chrisdb@...
Apr 2, 2008 5:24 pm
151906
Ignore point (2), I wasn't sure enough to include it but forgot to delete it....
Christopher Bates
chrisdb@...
Apr 2, 2008 5:31 pm
151907
... I think that classifications such as this are very interesting, but why are they useful? Charlie...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Apr 2, 2008 7:36 pm
151908
From a typological point of view. If you come up with a classification and demonstrate that you can then make predictions that languages which call into...
Christopher Bates
chrisdb@...
Apr 2, 2008 7:38 pm
151909
Sanskrit. "Define 'cynical'."-M. Mudd ... From: Michael Poxon <mike@...> To: CONLANG@... Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2008 3:57:01 AM ...
Campbell Nilsen
cactus95@...
Apr 2, 2008 8:19 pm
151910
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Christopher Bates <chrisdb@...> ... Well in my case, it puts bread on the table and pays the mortgage :-). ... -- ...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
Apr 2, 2008 10:22 pm
151911
Hi! ... Terkunan: Piloves What a coincidence. :-) What's Terkunan in Pilovian? It might be 'Tarragon(i)an' in English. In Terkunan, it is probably from...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 2, 2008 10:57 pm
151912
Thank you for the compliment on the name. As for the ambassador, well, At the very least he should be offered a class of Dom Perignon. He's such a snob I hear....
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:06 am
151913
Henrik: Thanks for the derivation. In Pilovese, Terkunan would be Taracounes. I have compiled the list of response that I recieved below. Thanks to everyone...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:12 am
151914
I have struggled with this as I only know a limited amout about the tree of Romance languages. (See Wikipedia ...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Apr 3, 2008 2:20 am
151915
... "Pequeno" comes from a different root, the Latin "paucus" meaning little or few. English derivatives are paucity, Paul, paraffin, poor, foal, filly, pony,...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Apr 3, 2008 3:39 am
151916
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:29 AM, caeruleancentaur ... I think it's a bit misleading to say that "pedo-" is a derivative of Latin "paucus", at least, if it's the...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 3, 2008 4:48 am
151917
So then pequeno and poco come from the same root? I was under the understanding that poco was from paucus and pequeno as I had described in my previous email....
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Apr 3, 2008 5:31 am
151918
Meyer-Lübke's "Romanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch" rejects a connexion with PAUCUS as phonologically untenable. He's somewhat kinder to a connexion with...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 3, 2008 6:36 am
151919
... The question is a bit moot, since a conlang may be similar to different natlangs in different parts of its structure: Sohlob is (by design) similar to...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 3, 2008 8:56 am
151920
... http://archives.conlang.info/ge/suezhae/qhuevhunwhian.html I think I'm up to writing a Perl script to collect data from a form and generate the code, but...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 3, 2008 9:03 am
151921
... My source is the American Heritage Dictionary which gives, in the Indo- European Root appendix, the entry "pou. also pau," as having a variant form *pu,...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Apr 3, 2008 12:00 pm
151922
... I do not know what was happening last night around midnight! I made an unsubstantiated leap from 'pequeno' to 'poco'! I might just as well have derived...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Apr 3, 2008 12:08 pm
151923
Hi. :) ... Er... actually no, I don't believe it does. :/ See below. ... I don't know in Spanish. In Portuguese, "pouco" comes from Latin "paucus"; and...
