... My initial model for Siye allophony was Japanese, but I didn't want [p] to become [h], so I did think of French. Perhaps one of the dialects other than...
190109
Alex Fink
000024@...
Aug 9, 2012 4:26 pm
... Fortition, I imagine. But I can't really think of a good example... I wonder if something like the Germanic relapse of *bh dh gh > [B D G] into [b d g]...
190110
Charles W Brickner
tepeyachill@...
Aug 9, 2012 10:09 pm
190111
neo gu
qiihoskeh@...
Aug 10, 2012 12:27 am
Hi, I tried to translate this into C0, but had to use a whole bunch of temporary vocabulary. The headless relative clauses (y- ... d-) are easily enough done...
190112
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 10, 2012 4:26 am
... To be honest, I think that words similar to Lincoln's would be "claptrap"; if an American president said them in this year, but they wouldn't be in 1863. It...
190113
BPJ
bpj@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:16 am
... Central Tibetan has [palatalized labial] > [alveopalatal] quite consistently, as well as [labial stop] + /r/ > [retroflex stop]. There seems to be no ...
190114
Scott Kyle Marcroft
aisling913@...
Aug 10, 2012 11:08 am
New to the list. Still a lot to learn about languages. Not so much about history. You description of a common ancestry and identity are off. This country did...
190115
BPJ
bpj@...
Aug 10, 2012 12:07 pm
... It's however worth noting that at least in most of Swedish the change was so late that the change {ð,ɣ} > {d,g} / {V,r} __ is probably a spelling ...
190116
Matthew DeBlock
vasten@...
Aug 10, 2012 2:08 pm
[snip] ... interesting...... what do you think about China?...
190117
phil@...
Aug 10, 2012 2:20 pm
I think we're getting into No Cross / No Crown territory. --Ph. D....
190118
Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
Aug 10, 2012 3:00 pm
... In the World, they seem to be of the opinion that with so many actual races of people living in the place, it doesn't make much sense to discriminate on...
190119
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Aug 10, 2012 3:18 pm
... I think we're getting into No Cross / No Crown territory. --Ph. D. ... RM: couldn't agree more !!!! <begin rant> However, it is worth pointing out that...
190120
Arthaey Angosii
arthaey@...
Aug 10, 2012 3:54 pm
Short but odd question: Are there any attested natlangs where the agent is syntactically the *object* and the patient the *subject* in a sentence? Or what...
190121
Garth Wallace
gwalla@...
Aug 10, 2012 4:35 pm
... Wait, the palatals became dentals before /i/? I would have expected the other way around....
190122
Alex Fink
000024@...
Aug 10, 2012 5:14 pm
... Parsing ambiguity, I think. Labiovelars became - palatals which then became dentals, before [i]; - velars before [u]; - labials elsewhere. For what it's...
190123
George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 10, 2012 7:15 pm
On the first point, I don't really see how you could have a language where the syntactic object is the agent and the subject is the patient, except in marked...
190124
mughtej
dpctrdk@...
Aug 10, 2012 7:29 pm
Hindu/Urdu's grammatical subjects in the past transitive sentences are the objects: the verbs change to fit the number and gender of the patient while the...
190125
Jen Runds
evil.jen@...
Aug 10, 2012 7:31 pm
I think 'true ergative' languages like Djirbal might put patients in subject and agent in object position....
190126
neo gu
qiihoskeh@...
Aug 10, 2012 9:05 pm
I spent a few hours today working on C2. C2 is also known as VAN for Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns, although it's not accurate: Adjectives includes all univalent...
190127
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 10, 2012 9:51 pm
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Scott Kyle Marcroft ... Nice to meet you, but I have to admit that I find it odd that you feel that you haven't still a lot to...
190128
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:03 pm
... I would say that the Han Chinese are a nation. The ROC is a polyethnic entity with a large Han majority....
190129
George Corley
gacorley@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:30 pm
... It is is a little odd though, in that the two largest ethnic/linguistic identities on Taiwan (Mandarin-speaking and Min Nan), can both be considered Han....
190130
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:45 pm
The Hakka are very much Han. But the biggest divide in Taiwanese society is between Mainlanders (those who came over with Chang Kaishek in the 40's) and those...
190131
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:53 pm
... Heck, it seems a little odd that one ethnic group or putative ethnic group encompasses about a sixth humanity! I think if we were to go by spoken language...
190132
Scott Kyle Marcroft
aisling913@...
Aug 10, 2012 10:56 pm
... This is simply not true. Even if you simply look at the slave population your numbers do not work. I am fairly certain they did not get off the ship...
190133
neo gu
qiihoskeh@...
Aug 10, 2012 11:43 pm
and now in C2 (VAN), again with temporary vocabulary. 0^(kn0&a^(kn~6^[kn0=fu. [xn!3. 0^(kn0&a(kn~6^[kn0=st. [tc!3. 0(kn0&a^(kn~6[kn0]sl. [wk!3. ...
190134
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 11, 2012 12:35 am
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Scott Kyle Marcroft ... What's simply not true? You can find the numbers here - ...
190135
Scott Kyle Marcroft
aisling913@...
Aug 11, 2012 5:41 am
... Did you just seriously cite wikipedia as a source? You realize even grade school children require better sources. Let us just go with what you have. First...
190136
Mike S.
maikxlx@...
Aug 11, 2012 7:00 am
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Scott Kyle Marcroft ... This is an informal chat, not a paper for some class. The section of Wikipedia that I cited is based...
190137
Matthew DeBlock
vasten@...
Aug 11, 2012 9:40 am
[snip] ... [snip] I hear alot of wiki bashing nowadays, usually by people with agendas I would like to know exactly what source you use as a starting reference...
