[Warning: Long, and theory-laden.] In my languages, I've traditionally avoided things like definite and indefinite articles because: (a) I don't like them, and...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2005 8:35 am
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Hallo! On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:04:51 -0400, ... Yes. ... No, _`ayin_ is a voiced *pharyngeal* fricative (CXS [?\]). At least in standard Arabic. It wouldn't...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 1, 2005 4:25 pm
131091
Hallo! On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:19:14 -0500, ... I think it cannot be generalized, but they often are (i.e, `on X' < `top of X') , and sometimes still behave...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 1, 2005 4:43 pm
131092
... Last time I checked, the "w3m" browser was good at rendering tables into preformatted monospace text. You might want to try it next time :-) -- Damian...
... German also differs: 1) a. In writing: das Buch des Jungen ART.sg.n.NOM book ART.sg.m.GEN boy "the book of the boy." b. Colloquial:...
Carsten Becker
naranoieati@...
May 1, 2005 5:28 pm
131095
... Apparently not available to the Great Unwashed without Univ. affiliation. Drat. (snipping occasionally) ... Very interesting, particularly so for those...
Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
May 1, 2005 5:38 pm
131096
... Cool. 90% of my German is High German. IIRC, this resembles a structure in Cree and other Algonquin languages, except that those use a locative instead of...
Joseph Bridwell
zhosh@...
May 1, 2005 6:34 pm
131097
... There's a similar grammatical distinction in Spanish, IIRC, that can be approximated in English by comparing: I'm looking for a waiter. (Neither speaker...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
May 1, 2005 7:06 pm
131098
... The short, but unhelpful, answer is 'quite a lot' :) ... Yep - some varieties of English regularly use [h\] in words like _ahead_, _behind_ etc. ... ...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
May 1, 2005 7:16 pm
131099
... I didn't assume it was - as you said "this is sometimes called", so I took it you were just reporting a fact." ... I've never heard the term before, and it...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
May 1, 2005 7:16 pm
131100
On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:03:23 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> ... WTF? I know for damn sure I spelled "oÿnu" correctly, since I used the Character...
Paul Bennett
paul-bennett@...
May 1, 2005 7:46 pm
131101
Roger wrote: << Very interesting, particularly so for those who've had experience with languages without real def/indef. articles (Indonesian in my case-- I ...
David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2005 8:13 pm
131102
... French only has (1)... "Une pièce du papier" isn't a good translation for "a sheet paper" "Une pièce du papier" would be "one of the paper's pieces" ...
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May 1, 2005 9:00 pm
131103
... A couple of other Minza verbs use "with" in this way (e.g. "noni" = "to be related") non -u tuök no ghul-at related-PF dog with wolf-GEN "dogs are...
Herman Miller
hmiller@...
May 1, 2005 11:47 pm
131104
Thanks to everyone who has answered my questions on this. I've found some phonetic .wav files and listened to them, but I still can't really hear the...
Gregory Gadow
techbear@...
May 2, 2005 12:32 am
131105
I've had a lot of time recently to give my conlang a good going-over, and I'm discovering all kinds of odd things about it that I never really looked at...
Gregory Gadow
techbear@...
May 2, 2005 1:20 am
131106
David J. Peterson palsalge ... An interesting set of data. Hm...since "come" is unergative, it has no object. As was later pointed out, some find the following...
Christopher Wright
dhasenan@...
May 2, 2005 3:47 am
131107
Just thought this might interest people - particularly Czhang (Hanuman). Share and Enjoy! Wesley Parish ... Subject: [bangla_vision] Anglicizing Hindi and Urdu...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
May 2, 2005 7:38 am
131108
... In the Salishan Languages on the Pacific Northwest of North America, there are two articles (not counting gender, number, etc.): referential and ...
wayne chevrier
wachevrier@...
May 2, 2005 5:23 pm
131109
... [snip] ... It does have (2) but the second should be _une pièce DE papier_ :) ... I agree - it's a very bad translation. ... Yep - it means "a piece of...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
May 2, 2005 7:09 pm
131110
On Monday, May 2, 2005, at 02:13 , Gregory Gadow wrote: [snip] ... "it" isn't! The _it_ in such sentences is known as a 'non-referential dummy subject'. That...
Ray Brown
ray.brown@...
May 2, 2005 7:09 pm
131111
... um...pardon my ignorance, please; but what is a "w3m" ? ... I'll try; thanks....
Rodlox R
rodlox@...
May 2, 2005 7:40 pm
131112
Hallo! Apart from a post by Philip announcing an update of the Mærik page on April 1, nothing has happened last month on the lostlangs list. Greetings, Jörg....
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 2, 2005 7:40 pm
131113
I devised the comparisons for my conlang Vbazi, and I tried a kind of way by using auxiliaries and because it's a kind of way I've never saw I'd prefer y'all...
(no author)
(no email address)
May 2, 2005 7:50 pm
131114
... <snip> ... My very experimental conlang Soaloa requires two "things" (objects, attributes, states, etc.) and a relationship between them, so the minimum...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 2, 2005 7:53 pm
131115
... Since the answers you've already received were quite thorough, I will only comment on the above question you asked. IMO, whatever morphological or ...
John Quijada
jq_ithkuil@...
May 2, 2005 8:20 pm
131116
Thanks for the comments, Ray. As for my joke about why not me or the dog raining, I was just pointing out an oddity of idiomatic English that has always...
Gregory Gadow
techbear@...
May 2, 2005 8:31 pm
131117
What are the function of/reason for the double finals in Han-geul (i.e., -lm, -ls, etc.)? As far as I can tell, they're not pronounced, but I still can't...
Steven Williams
feurieaux@...
May 2, 2005 9:00 pm
131118
John Quijada wrote ... For the most part, that is the case. Some verbs couldn't use this, however, just as there are some verbs in English that can not be put...
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