... Not to derail your point by nitpicking your specific example, but "blue-green" works in both senses in English, and is probably more widely understood as a...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 1, 2009 11:55 am
160454
... Let's say English worked this way. If I'm understanding the grammar correctly, "The father my mother loves." could represent: 1. The father loves my...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
May 1, 2009 12:35 pm
160455
... That's precisely what's done with names. After all, how do you provide the English definition or version of a foreign name? (Sometimes names are marked as...
David Peterson
dedalvs@...
May 1, 2009 12:36 pm
160456
... You can do that with word order as well, for example by putting the adjective after the noun when you imply a copula, otherwise before. Suraetua has...
Lars Finsen
lars.finsen@...
May 1, 2009 12:41 pm
160457
... I would think (perhaps incorrectly) it would depend on how far the non-English (or non-target-language) meaning is from the English (or target language), ...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
May 1, 2009 1:54 pm
160458
... Which has reminded me of the Lady Aoi, Prince Genji's wife, in Lady Murasaki's great novel "The Tale of Genji," "Genji Monogatari."...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
May 1, 2009 4:31 pm
160459
... The flipside is illustrated in some panels of "Backstroke of the West" (http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html), where attempts...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
May 1, 2009 5:06 pm
160460
... So far I'm trying to leave out and reference to semantics from the syntax. In effect my "SOV" is just a string of arbitrary characters, and maybe "O" was...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 1, 2009 5:24 pm
160461
... Good example, which is why ALL O elements in ai Basata begin with a preposition. This requires some "prepositions" that might be more properly called...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 1, 2009 5:56 pm
160462
Subject: Re: How do non-English speaking linguists do interlinears? From: Paul Kershaw <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <[log in to...
Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette@...
May 1, 2009 8:31 pm
160463
I'd be happy to take a stab at this. If anyone wants to contribute or collaborate, feel free to email me offlist. Would a PDF be preferable to a .doc? or would...
Donald Boozer
donaldboozer@...
May 1, 2009 8:41 pm
160464
Thanks for all the information on interlinears, fellows. I didn't realize there were complex protocols about them. The question was posed in order to answer...
Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette@...
May 1, 2009 8:41 pm
160465
Eugene Oh, below is an attempt at an interlinear for the sentence I gave you before (which has yet another correction). I haven't had time yet to read the...
Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette@...
May 1, 2009 9:03 pm
160466
... Where can I find a phonlogy of gzb? Andrew Jarrette...
Andrew Jarrette
anjarrette@...
May 1, 2009 9:27 pm
160467
Appositives, Gary? "My son, the doctor, went to town." And the Englishly ambiguous: "My son, the doctor, and I went to town."...
Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
May 1, 2009 9:35 pm
160468
... http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/i/jimhenry1973/gzb/phonology.htm Just lop off the end of the URL to get a list of all the gzb pages: ...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
May 1, 2009 9:53 pm
160469
... Although "I with my friends saw the girl" might create a semantically meaningful ambiguity, no? That is, "When I was with my friends, I saw the girl" (they...
Paul Kershaw
ptkershaw@...
May 1, 2009 10:09 pm
160470
... (Latest version of the rules at <http://fiziwig.com/ai_basata/> with two new rules added today for quantifiers and for "prepositions" formed of phrases,...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 1, 2009 11:41 pm
160471
... Does anyone have more than one language that has "a mind of its own?" And if so, do they move in different directions or are they more or less similar in...
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
May 2, 2009 3:19 pm
160472
... It's trivial for me to create a PDF from a doc, and docs are far more editable. So .doc is preferred. - Sai...
Sai Emrys
saizai@...
May 2, 2009 4:06 pm
160473
Hallo! ... I wouldn't say you cannot have more than one conlang (family) with a "mind of its own". Indeed, to some degree, my Germanech (a romlang) does so,...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 2, 2009 5:03 pm
160474
My current project, ai Basata, is coming along nicely and I'm at the point where I would like to start documenting my phonology, morphology, syntax, and...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 2, 2009 5:31 pm
160475
Hallo! ... A grammar sketch of Old Albic is found at http://wiki.frath.net/Old_Albic Mark Rosenfelder has some excellent grammar sketches of his conlangs at ...
Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
May 2, 2009 5:37 pm
160476
My own Gutisc grammar is progressing nicely but is not yet completed, so you cannot use it as a model. Now, of course you have Zompist.com with a lot of...
Damien Perrotin
erwan.arskoul@...
May 2, 2009 5:51 pm
160477
\begin[shameless]{selfpromotion} Well, this is what my sketch of the Rejistanian grammar looks like: http://gist.github.com/101728 \end{selfpromotion} Va'il...
Mechthild Czapp
0zu149@...
May 2, 2009 7:09 pm
160478
... But the OP *requested* shameless self-promotion! Truly there is no shame here. :) My grammar is available on my site: ...
Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
May 2, 2009 7:30 pm
160479
Two to choose from, both on FrathWiki: http://wiki.frath.net/Shemspreg http://wiki.frath.net/Tepa Hope that helps. Dirk...
Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@...
May 2, 2009 7:32 pm
160480
... I think Kenshuite He Mo Gie gained a mind of its own as soon as I started it on a long bus ride. It developed somewhat differently from Rejistanian, even...
Mechthild Czapp
0zu149@...
May 2, 2009 7:44 pm
160481
... Thank you everyone for the links so far. I'm really enjoying reading through them and copying out the section headings in outline form. This is really...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
May 2, 2009 9:20 pm
160482
... http://dedalvs.com/ -David ******************************************************************* "A male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a." ...
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