... Those are called "morphones", right? (The name seems to be something of a phoneme : phone :: morpheme : X construction, tho the analogy is a little off ...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 1, 2008 8:04 am
154286
... I can't speak for Henrik, but my idea of applying it to English is evidently different. In Hangraphy, characters apply to IE morphemes, so "werewolf" and...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:14 am
154287
Hi! ... I haven't decided yet what I like best. It would seem that I need to look into it more closely to decide which system I find best suited. I do feel...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:35 am
154288
Hi! ... No, I'd have at least two scripts: one for the stems, one for the affixes. And maybe I'd use yet another for totally morphological particles. The...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2008 10:43 am
154289
Hi! ... Ah, interesting! Thanks for the example! :-) ... Possible, but it seems to extreme to me. I would like to mark it somehow, I think. ... I fully agree....
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 1, 2008 11:44 am
154290
... I should imagine a fair few of the Greek and Roman borrowings could first be translated to Geman stems quite easily, which will simplify mapping to the...
Peter Collier
petecollier@...
Aug 1, 2008 11:57 am
154291
I just happened to be looking at conlangs.berkeley.edu to try to fix a broken link from a Wikipedia article, and found information about the third Language...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 2, 2008 11:22 am
154292
Jim - This is literally being finalized right now with the Board and a couple major speakers, so we should be able to make an announcement within days. Since I...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Aug 2, 2008 3:38 pm
154293
... I think the question is how you view writing. If you consider the possibility that a writing system can be an independent method of communication, rather...
David McCann
david@...
Aug 2, 2008 3:42 pm
154294
... That makes sense. ... OK; it seemed ambiguous, though, with the Paypal link and the early registration deadline already in the past. As for the information...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 2, 2008 4:00 pm
154295
Another thing the organizers might want to decide on or announce before people make their travel plans & buy plane tickets -- are we going to have a walking...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 2, 2008 4:09 pm
154296
... I can honestly say I have never even heard of it. I'll forward this on to the Board for discussion, though. ;-) Thanks for the suggestion, - Sai...
Sai Emrys
sai@...
Aug 2, 2008 4:48 pm
154297
... Not sure I will be able to attend (sister visiting probably till mid-Oct.... ... Cheep lodging essential !! College will be in session, so dorm rooms are ...
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Aug 2, 2008 6:48 pm
154298
I don't know whether this has a lot to do with constructed languages, I just found it interesting. ...
John Campbell
campbell.2006@...
Aug 3, 2008 7:18 pm
154299
Has anybody (With a computer science-oriented mind) ever thought about a conlang which could be compiled (in the CS sense of the word) into a simpler language,...
John Campbell
campbell.2006@...
Aug 3, 2008 7:25 pm
154300
... Not exactly, perhaps, but I once thought of creating a programming language that would be inflected rather than isolating like most programming languages....
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 3, 2008 7:46 pm
154301
... thought about a ... programming ... participle ... subjunctive?); ... dative, ... I like that idea. You could even have different inflections for event...
li_sasxsek@...
Aug 3, 2008 8:27 pm
154302
... And maybe a valency marking suffix would make a function into a procedure by forcing all its arguments to default values...? ... More likely data types...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 3, 2008 8:56 pm
154303
... See Perligata: <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ Perligata.html>...
Eric Christopherson
rakko@...
Aug 3, 2008 9:01 pm
154304
... That reminds me of Lingua::Romana::Perligata ( <http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html> / http://xrl.us/omnbj ), a Perl source...
Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Aug 3, 2008 9:04 pm
154305
In gzb, abstract postpositions are derived from a content root word plus a spacetime postposition such as {i} = "at / in / during". E.g., {tu-i} = agent-at,...
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Aug 3, 2008 10:09 pm
154306
... I was thinking more like the difference between bar(foo()) and bar(foo) in languages like C# --- the former passes the result of calling foo(); the latter...
Tristan McLeay
conlang@...
Aug 3, 2008 10:26 pm
154307
... [...] ... Wiktionary's translations for "despite" and "in spite of" return a few traceable cases. Italian _nonostante_, with parallels in some other...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Aug 4, 2008 2:25 am
154308
... The only one I can think of right away is the German preposition "trotz"....
li_sasxsek@...
Aug 4, 2008 2:38 am
154309
I was wondering if anyone has considered what scientific discourse might look like in a language that mandated grammatical evidentiality marking. Such a...
william drewery
travis65610@...
Aug 4, 2008 3:27 am
154310
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:00:02 -0400, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> ... Jim, before I forget again, I think I said Naisek was ergative when I answered the...
Jeffrey Jones
jsjonesmiami@...
Aug 4, 2008 4:49 am
154311
... You're right, that's what should go into my X slot there... that leaves "morphone" hanging then, tho. So we have- * morpheme: unit of meaning * phoneme:...
John Vertical
johnvertical@...
Aug 4, 2008 7:22 am
154312
... Hmmm, Thrjotrunn must be something like the great-grandchild of Brithenig. I wonder what Romlangs look like plotted out on a flow chart? I am debating...
andrew
hobbit@...
Aug 4, 2008 9:49 am
154313
Hi! ... German has 'trotz' + GEN, where used as a noun, 'Trotz' means 'defiance'. So that might be what you're looking for. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Aug 4, 2008 10:32 am
154314
... The Grimms' wordbook surprisingly links the prepositional use to an older interjectional use, and by the way points out that the dative is more original...
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