Here's how to order your very own conference gear. The page for this on the website should be updated soon (once Ellen has some time free), but I'm telling...
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Cian Ross
cian@...
Apr 1, 2006 8:55 am
... Veldan seems to be well enough developed for this: king regas queen regis bishop syero`s ("priest") knight sequosoplos ("horse-soldier") rook os...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Apr 1, 2006 10:48 am
Hi, As For My Conlangs: (1) The King's horse (2) The King's knight's horse Ayeri, Daléian: (1) horse king.GEN (2) horse knight.GEN king.GEN Tarsyanian (in...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Apr 1, 2006 11:15 am
... I could do a reasonable translation of the piece-names in Meghean: king _corth_ ("king") or maybe better _can_ ("lord") queen _cea_ ("lady") bishop...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 1, 2006 11:48 am
... [snip] ... What would that be in the so-called "Saxon genitive"? (1) is obviously "DAT king POSS horse" (DAT = dative article; POSS = possessive particle),...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Apr 1, 2006 12:03 pm
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 13:41:34 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> ... [snip] ... I forgot: Genitive nouns have to agree with the article in German:...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Apr 1, 2006 1:04 pm
... I'm not trying to say that it's impossible that grammatical categories called "imperativ" can never be applied to 1st person; that would be absurd. Only...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 1, 2006 4:03 pm
... Sounds like Lojban, where the pronoun in question is {ko} and could, perhaps, be explained as "act so that the proposition becomes true" (in your example:...
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Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 1, 2006 4:59 pm
Hi! ... I know this as referring to using the genitive suffix -s with an apostrophy in German. The correct way would be to not use an apostrophy. So: Peters...
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Patrick Littell
puchitao@...
Apr 1, 2006 5:26 pm
On 3/28/06, Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:. ... Sumerian had this quirk, too, although in a different order: é lugal -ak -a house king...
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R A Brown
ray@...
Apr 1, 2006 5:39 pm
... [snip] ... The genitive phrase is adjectival, so it was treated just like any other adjective or phrasal adjective, i.e. normal: article + adjective +...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Apr 1, 2006 5:53 pm
... I'd say that languages have actual shifts and groups of languages have tendencies. Anyway ... sounds shifts always require a context. Yes, medial voicing...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 1, 2006 6:58 pm
... Good. Another change that's very common: s > h (>0) ... At least in terms of one lang.family, that's true: in the development from Proto Austronesian >...
Just a little plug for a new page on my site. I finally added a page on the manual alphabet and number system of my CSL (constructed sign language) KNSL....
... OCS is the western slavonic language, and Russian is the eastern one. There was another, so called äÒÅ×ÎÅÒÕÓÓËÉÊ (ancient russian), which is ...
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Apr 2, 2006 10:35 am
... I'd imagine CONSTR stands for the construct state, as it is called in languages such as Arabic. (The syntax is, IIRC, as in the above -- possessed in...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2006 11:35 am
... To adopt a massive oversimplification, Latin is to French as OCS is to Russian. It's the liturgical, traditional language, and half-comprehensible without...
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John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Apr 2, 2006 12:37 pm
... I'm not sure what you mean by that. x > h, for example, is much more probable. Universal loss of s, to my knowledge, generally requires all other ...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Apr 2, 2006 1:04 pm
From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:05 PM ... Construct state. It's the 'reverse genitive' so to say. The possessee...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Apr 2, 2006 1:06 pm
From: "John Vertical" <johnvertical@...> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:47 PM ... I think I meant medial voicing. ... See the Germanic Sound Shifts...
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Yahya Abdal-Aziz
yahya@...
Apr 2, 2006 2:02 pm
Hi, John! Yes, terms for humans are also of interest - why not? Unless you think of humans as inherently "not animals" ... In English, I can only think of the...
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Tristan Alexander McL...
conlang@...
Apr 2, 2006 2:26 pm
... Actually, I got that backwards: Faculty/School/Department. The School of Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, of which the Department of CS&CE is a part...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2006 4:43 pm
... In the UK, school can refer to one of two entities: A college, that is, a semi-independent subunit of a university. So, for example, the School of...
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Sally Caves
scaves@...
Apr 2, 2006 5:29 pm
Actually, I think that's cool! Sally ... From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...> To: <CONLANG@...> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 2, 2006 5:50 pm
... Ancient Greek shows *s > h/0 (at least in some environments), and IIRC some of the Persian langs. do too. Of course, IE had no other fricatives to lose......
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2006 6:06 pm
... Are you sure? Sanskrit does it, at least word finally....
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 2, 2006 6:58 pm
Joe wrote: ... Not so sure-- I could be wrong, but I don't think OCS is the _direct_ ancestor of Russian; though I'm also not sure which Slavic languages (if ...
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Joe
joe@...
Apr 2, 2006 7:44 pm
... I did say it was an oversimplificationl, but still, one could say that Latin (esp. Ecclesiastical Latin and Medieval Latin) isn't the direct ancestor of...
