You should look at: McCarthy, John and Alan Prince. 1990. Foot and Word in Prosodic Morphology: The Arabic Broken Plural. Natural Language and Linguistic...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Dec 2, 2009 4:16 pm
Hallo! ... I know very well what you are talking about. With my conlang Old Albic, which is partly a priori (the a posteriori parts of it are some ...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Dec 2, 2009 10:29 am
Who's got the Round Robin at the moment? Pete...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 2, 2009 8:47 am
... Ah HA! This is half of it! My Al-Kitaab book has these 10 forms, and has names for them, but it's the *description* that you've provided that was...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 2, 2009 8:35 am
... I'm far from a FontForge viz -- and I too prefer to make my images in Inkscape and import them -- but AFAIK there is a command you must apply to get...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Dec 2, 2009 5:34 am
Hey! I just found out that Marc Okrand graduated from my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz! :-) --larry...
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Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
Dec 2, 2009 5:17 am
... My solution was to go really slowly. I started seriously working on Angosey in 2001, and it only broke 1,000 words in 2009. It broke 1000 only after I ...
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Matthew Turnbull
ave.jor@...
Dec 2, 2009 4:45 am
... Slow vocabulary creation is a problem for me only because I don't work on it enough, for me, making a word is like this, you clear your mind of everything...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 2, 2009 4:31 am
... Welcome! ... Well, since I own a copy, I guess I better say something (David Durand also has a copy). I was fascinated with the Codex when I heard about...
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Kelvin Jackson
kechpaja@...
Dec 2, 2009 3:39 am
... Are you synaesthetic by any chance? This sounds like that sort of thing... ... I know what you're feeling. I often try to create morphological patterns...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 2, 2009 3:14 am
... Not a problem. I think the main decision is to decide what's going to be basic, and what's going to be derived (and then, perhaps, what's going to be...
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Edward Miller
sewerbird@...
Dec 2, 2009 3:05 am
Well, that's nice. Welcome! On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, FirstName: S.L. LastName: Frank <...
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FirstName: S.L. LastN...
slfrank67@...
Dec 2, 2009 2:58 am
(I hope I am not the only one who will always read that in the voice of Christian Slater.) I am sending this e-mail to introduce myself, as I have recently...
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Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Dec 2, 2009 2:11 am
I've been trying to make an a priori conlang for months, now ---not that this is the only thing I'm trying to do, otherwise it would feel like a big failure by...
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Harry Aspinwall
harold_aspinwall@...
Dec 2, 2009 1:53 am
Here are al-awzaan of verbs as I understand them (in past tense third singular masculine form, as in the grammars): 1. fa3ala/fa3ula/fa3ila - basic form 2....
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Fran
slfrank67@...
Dec 2, 2009 1:01 am
I actually filled out the official application yesterday... not sure if that will go through though. I would be over the moon to get one, really. -s.l. frank...
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Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
Dec 2, 2009 12:29 am
... I've posted it to LiveJournal, here: http://community.livejournal.com/conlangs/469710.html And I guess I'll also post it to a Toki Pona forum and an...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 1, 2009 11:05 pm
... I posted your survey on the ZBB, and it's gotten a couple responses (I don't know if they e-mailed their responses to you. I did say that you'd only...
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Shair Ahmed
aeetlrcreejl@...
Dec 1, 2009 10:58 pm
I'd like this too. I got an Arabic textbook a few days ago, and I'll comb through it to see what it says. NÄ« hod poc lije, duÄŸams!...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Dec 1, 2009 10:41 pm
... I've been kind of hoping to run across such a thing myself. Just a simple chart that demonstrates the morphology through examples. Please let me know if...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 1, 2009 10:26 pm
So, I've hit a bit of an internet brick wall. What I'm looking for is a list of all the awzaan of Arabic--preferably with a corresponding list of how each...
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Carsten Becker
carbeck@...
Dec 1, 2009 10:08 pm
... Besides what David said, I think another important point is kerning. Fontforge is supposed to do that automatically to some extent I think, however I have...
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David Peterson
dedalvs@...
Dec 1, 2009 9:48 pm
... I've had this problem with seemingly every single one of my fonts, so I think that the problem isn't actually with the font, but with the way we perceive...
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Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Dec 1, 2009 9:32 pm
Im generally happy with the font I made with Inkscape and FontForge. However, it appears a little small for it's pixel size. See what I mean at the bottom of...
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<deinx nxtxr>
deinx.nxtxr@...
Dec 1, 2009 8:58 pm
... I didn't notice that but I think I'd avoid it or any other key that's used for system functions or commong shortcuts (couldn't live without keys for cut,...
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Mark Henshaw
harkenbane@...
Dec 1, 2009 8:08 pm
... I posted it to the Auxlang list; I don't know about the other lists, but if someone who is a member of those two lists is interested in posting the survey,...
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Jörg Rhiemeier
joerg_rhiemeier@...
Dec 1, 2009 8:01 pm
Hallo! ... Seconded. I have seen several good back-stories for conlangs, but this one is indeed charming and original. Also, what is to be read on the blog...
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Bruno Barcelos
bruno.barcelos.alves@...
Dec 1, 2009 5:59 pm
... Sorry, I think the e-mail message went to Douglas instead of the whole list....
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Dec 1, 2009 4:31 pm
... The back-story is charming! I'm looking forward to more information....
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Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
Dec 1, 2009 9:57 am
Everyone, I've just started a new series of blogs about my conlangs. Since my webpage is hopelessly outdated and I can't seem to advance fast enough in ...