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138386
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...
Sai Emrys
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Apr 1, 2006
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138387
... Veldan seems to be well enough developed for this: king regas queen regis bishop syero`s ("priest") knight sequosoplos ("horse-soldier") rook os...
Cian Ross
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Apr 1, 2006
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138388
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...
Carsten Becker
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Apr 1, 2006
10:48 am
138389
... I could do a reasonable translation of the piece-names in Meghean: king _corth_ ("king") or maybe better _can_ ("lord") queen _cea_ ("lady") bishop...
Andreas Johansson
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Apr 1, 2006
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138390
... [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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Apr 1, 2006
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138391
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:...
Carsten Becker
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Apr 1, 2006
12:03 pm
138392
... 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...
John Vertical
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Apr 1, 2006
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138393
... 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:...
Philip Newton
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Apr 1, 2006
4:03 pm
138394
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...
Henrik Theiling
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Apr 1, 2006
4:59 pm
138395
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...
Patrick Littell
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Apr 1, 2006
5:26 pm
138396
... [snip] ... The genitive phrase is adjectival, so it was treated just like any other adjective or phrasal adjective, i.e. normal: article + adjective +...
R A Brown
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Apr 1, 2006
5:39 pm
138397
... I'd say that languages have actual shifts and groups of languages have tendencies. Anyway ... sounds shifts always require a context. Yes, medial voicing...
John Vertical
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Apr 1, 2006
5:53 pm
138398
... 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 >...
Roger Mills
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Apr 1, 2006
6:58 pm
138399
... Asha'ille: (1) horse POSS.king "kkin so'dershár" (2) horse POSS.knight PREV.PHRASE POSS.king "kkin so'akyen 'yu so'dershár" ... Does "CONSTR"...
Arthaey Angosii
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Apr 1, 2006
8:11 pm
138400
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....
David J. Peterson
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Apr 2, 2006
1:03 am
138401
... chess feina (kings) king fena queen wana bishop bishapa (loan) knight [kan]kada (horse[man]) rook saima (castle) pawn pakla (soldier) check tat...
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Apr 2, 2006
6:39 am
138402
... 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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Apr 2, 2006
10:19 am
138403
... 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...
Philip Newton
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Apr 2, 2006
10:35 am
138404
... 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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Apr 2, 2006
11:35 am
138405
... 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 ...
John Vertical
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Apr 2, 2006
12:37 pm
138406
From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 10:05 PM ... Construct state. It's the 'reverse genitive' so to say. The possessee...
Carsten Becker
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Apr 2, 2006
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138407
From: "John Vertical" <johnvertical@...> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:47 PM ... I think I meant medial voicing. ... See the Germanic Sound Shifts...
Carsten Becker
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Apr 2, 2006
1:06 pm
138408
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...
Yahya Abdal-Aziz
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Apr 2, 2006
2:02 pm
138409
... Actually, I got that backwards: Faculty/School/Department. The School of Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, of which the Department of CS&CE is a part...
Tristan Alexander McL...
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Apr 2, 2006
2:26 pm
138410
... 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...
Joe
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Apr 2, 2006
4:43 pm
138411
Actually, I think that's cool! Sally ... From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...> To: <CONLANG@...> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006...
Sally Caves
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Apr 2, 2006
5:29 pm
138412
... 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......
Roger Mills
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Apr 2, 2006
5:50 pm
138413
... Are you sure? Sanskrit does it, at least word finally....
Joe
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Apr 2, 2006
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138414
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 ...
Roger Mills
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Apr 2, 2006
6:58 pm
138415
... 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...
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