http://audmanh.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/two-tools-for-conlangers/ Derivizer: produce random derived forms from a list of bases and a list of affixal...
196949
MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
May 21, 2013 4:14 am
... Black vs white is a different kind of opposite than big vs small. Black and white are the two endpoints of a continuum of gray with extremes at each end:...
196950
George Marques de Jesus
georgemjesus@...
May 21, 2013 4:44 am
Let me try to describe it. The syllable structure is CV(V)C. The final consonant has 5 possibilities, including a "null consonant". Vowels might be short or...
196951
Jyri Lehtinen
lehtinen.jyri@...
May 21, 2013 8:06 am
... Seems like fifth grade teacher-ACC-POSS is tired = [a teacher of the fifth grade]-ACC is tired (using here nominative/accusative for ak/ev). I'm not sure...
196952
Daniel Bowman
danny.c.bowman@...
May 21, 2013 11:46 am
Thank you for passing this on - I'm very excited to have a look! 2013/5/21 Alex Fink <000024@...>...
196953
BPJ
bpj@...
May 21, 2013 12:19 pm
Sounds like you could be helped by Graphite! <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects&item_id=graphite_home> When I did a conscript with...
196954
Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 21, 2013 12:29 pm
... I'm not so sure "zero" is even a terminus on this scale. All you have to do is the old "half that size" trick to make the "small" end of the continuum...
196955
Padraic Brown
elemtilas@...
May 21, 2013 12:41 pm
... I think it's nonsensical only for that fact that these don't really have "opposites", just shades of more or less. So an opposite of salty is "not quite so...
196956
Muke Tever
muke@...
May 21, 2013 12:56 pm
On Mon, 20 May 2013 11:08:13 -0600, Matthew Boutilier ... Might just be a shibboleth of some kind - the set of words are a terminus technicus among linguists...
196957
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 21, 2013 2:06 pm
... thanks for the interesting info and valuable critique. One problem with this for Gravgaln is the fact that the pronouns don't mark person, but caste....
196958
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 21, 2013 2:14 pm
How common is it for a language to have both a powerful verbal morphology AND robust case marking? I have just started looking at cases for Gravgaln, and...
196959
Wm Annis
wm.annis@...
May 21, 2013 2:23 pm
... One way to think about this question is the distinction between head-marking (lots of argument marking on the verb) and dependent- marking (lots of...
196960
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
May 21, 2013 2:42 pm
... Ok, that doesn't fully solve my internal quandary, but it does provide useful info for further ponderment. Thanks. Adam...
196961
Elena ``of Valhalla&#...
elena.valhalla@...
May 21, 2013 3:34 pm
... A similar thing happens in Italian: most people would say that the opposite of "salato" (salty) is "dolce" (sweet). On the other hand, "salato" is also...
196962
Roger Mills
romiltz@...
May 21, 2013 5:28 pm
You might want to take a look at my Gwr script-- yours sounds sort-of similar. http://cinduworld.tripod.com/prelim_gwr.htm scroll down to Paragraph 3...
196963
George Marques de Jesus
georgemjesus@...
May 21, 2013 7:13 pm
It seems that Graphite might do the trick, just have to learn how it works. And yes, it has some similarities with Gwr. How it was made? George Marques ...
196964
Matthew George
matt.msg@...
May 21, 2013 10:13 pm
The language that I'm working on makes a variety of distinctions among negation, separating usages that English (and from your comments, many other languages)...
196965
Ph. D.
phil@...
12:05 am
The Gwr font was made with Fontographer. The initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants are all separate characters with the horizontal bar extending...
196966
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
1:46 am
Is anyone here the teensiest bit familiar with the Dumi language and its ornative case? I'm trying to figure out why it should be considered a noun case and...
196967
Alex Fink
000024@...
2:18 am
... Well, what counts as a case, just like what counts as what part of speech and whatnot, is at root a *syntactic* rather than a semantic question. So I...
196968
George Corley
gacorley@...
2:18 am
... I have not heard of this "ornative";, but genitive is a good deal more specific than turning nouns into modifiers (and there's arguments about what exactly...
196969
Adam Walker
carraxan@...
2:34 am
Right. It's that fuzzy territory alongside the nonbright line I'm wanting to explore as I decide on the case structure for Gravgaln. Adam...
196970
Jim Henry
jimhenry1973@...
3:45 am
... For many such terms, Esperanto has contrastive mal- and ne- derivations, e.g. "malrapida" (slow) and "nerapida"; (not particularly fast). gjâ-zym-byn has...
196971
Scott Hlad
scotthlad@...
4:36 am
I have posted a website for my new conlang, Asirka. There is an incomplete pdf grammar, a vocabulary page similar to Rosetta Stone (Rosetta Lite?) as well as a...
196972
Nicole Valicia Thomps...
goldyemoran@...
5:45 am
Are any of your conlangs dieing or making a come back? Silknish was a dead language, that's making a come back. There's a family who is the lst line of...
196973
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
6:53 am
... My own Moten handles negation in a similar, if not exactly identical, way. Basically, it distinguishes three types of negation: opposites/antonyms ...
196974
James Thain
clanrubylion@...
7:23 am
I got this idea from a "simple syntax" that Rick Harrison made available ostensibly for an auxlang. I thought it would make a good blueprint for the VSO...
196975
J. 'Mach' Wust
j_mach_wust@...
9:06 am
It might be possible to circumvent (most of) the smartfont programming by making a monowidth font. That is to say, a font with monowidth base characters and...
196976
Christian Thalmann
Thalmann@...
10:32 am
This kind of thing should be quite feasible with contextual alternates — especially if your syllables all have the same overall dimensions. In my experience,...
196977
Christophe Grandsire-...
tsela.cg@...
2:04 pm
... That may well be, but not everyone owns a Mac nor wishes to own one. -- Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets. http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/ ...
