... Pinker has been at the "Chomsky¹s School", so to speak. ;-) Here is what he said on his web page : "My research includes both empirical studies of...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 4, 2003 8:00 pm
Today it is my great pleasure to announce _Tengwestië_, a new, online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/ This...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 4, 2003 8:01 pm
A new article has been published on _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (<http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/>): "The...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 7, 2003 1:20 pm
A new article has been published in _Tengwestië_ (<http://www.elvish.org/Tengwestie/>): The Two Phonetic Values of _ll_ in Elvish Sindarin in _The Lord of the...
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jonathan_avidan
Dec 8, 2003 1:06 pm
I have a question concerning the passage from Tolkien's essay on _The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor_ (VT42:27), quoted in Carl Hostetter's article "The...
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Tchitrec@...
tchitrec
Dec 10, 2003 2:42 am
In the second article recently published on Tengwestië, Carl Hostetter gives reasons for seeing two distinct values assigned to the grapheme LL in the ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 10, 2003 3:51 am
... A further thought on this point: The correct value of _h_ in Quenya and _f_ in Sindarin can be readily discerned by the reader strictly on the basis of...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 10, 2003 9:02 pm
... Useless only as a way of indicating the correct pronunciation of every single word. But isn't it useful to the 'interested lay reader' to know that they...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 10, 2003 9:41 pm
I'd like to say a little more here about the purpose of _Tengwestië_, and the reason for its creation. For years now, it's been clear that what space I have...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Dec 10, 2003 10:38 pm
... Also lh in Portuguese, like ll in Castilian, has the value of l mouillé. Hence it is unclear (as indeed any Latin spelling of any non-Latin sound, except...
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cgilson75
Dec 11, 2003 12:52 pm
... PARMA ELDALAMBERON 14 ... EARLY QENYA and The VALMARIC SCRIPT by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... This forthcoming issue has three sections containing newly published ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 11, 2003 5:50 pm
... Know the truth. [There are very many facts about his languages that Tolkien could have included in the Appendices had his purpose in writing them been to...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 22, 2003 1:22 pm
I have made a small addition to my article on "The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the Etymologies" in _Tengwestië_ ...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Dec 25, 2003 5:12 pm
NOTE: I had originally intended to post the following comments on Elfling, but as of this morning I have been banned from that forum by David Salo, without...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Dec 26, 2003 3:11 am
... [...] I had in my mind something like PIK-ME > PINGWE - but I surmise this pattern is a feature of much later stages of the language...? I think you have...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Dec 26, 2003 9:04 pm
... **Eh, I am puzzled. I see I have misunderstood the purpose of this mailing list. I have re-read the description on the yahoo site but I am still puzzled....
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Dec 28, 2003 9:35 pm
... No, not the French, who are quite unaware that "chenille"; is etymologically related to dog, chien in French. It is the Romans of the IV century or so who...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Dec 30, 2003 6:01 pm
It is noted in LR:1097 that "[the tengwa] _áre_ was originally _áze_, but when this _z_ became merged with 21 [_óre_], the sign was in Quenya used for the...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 1, 2004 3:51 pm
... **The Qenya Phonology is not, in my opinion, the best resource for researching the Quenya as conveived by Tolkien when he was writing and after he wrote...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 1, 2004 7:29 pm
... In Etym, entry-head, MA3-, we see "Eld" *_mahtâ-_ derived from earlier *_ma3- tâ-_, and under WA3 we find *wahtâ and *wahsê. I would tend to interpret...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 3, 2004 3:14 am
... I see. You say it means: _s_ and _z_ are variants (one to each other) similarly as _þ_ and _ð_ are (one to each other). But I interpreted it otherwise:...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 3, 2004 2:11 pm
... An obvious point, perhaps, but the change _Elerína_>_Elerrína_ could reflect a change in analysis from _el_+_rína_ to _elen_+_rína_. Andreas...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 3, 2004 11:11 pm
... **I see. I took a second look on the sentence and yes, it could be read like this. I am not a native English speaker either, so my reading does not have to...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Jan 4, 2004 1:38 am
The contrastive forms _olos_ and _olor_ can be explained with ease in two different ways: A) originally _olos_ gets its final _s_ voiced in position before...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Jan 4, 2004 1:47 am
... Well, as there's to the very best of my knowledge no (other) Q word with a gamma in it, it would rather surpise me. And _g_>_gh_>_y_ is hardly very odd. ...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 4, 2004 1:49 am
I have always supposed that the form _olor_ arose by analogy with the other cases (comp. Latin _honos_/_honor_) . This seems to me to be the most natural...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 4, 2004 1:57 am
I have recently specified a set of standard Conventions and Abbreviations guide for the web-journal _Tengwestië_, and would like to use the same for this list...
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Darrell Martin
forbarad
Jan 4, 2004 12:54 pm
Greetings: If one wished to test a hypothesis that some invented Tolkien language I is "based on" some primary-world language P, how ought one go about it? ...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Jan 4, 2004 11:57 pm
Thank you all (specially to Ales) for your comments on the matter of rhotacism. I find them very instructive and helpful. Some time ago I started to write an...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Jan 5, 2004 12:49 pm
... Perhaps because of the difference of the stress pattern? In "felga>felya" the "felg>fely" syllable is stressed, whereas in "ulgundo>ulundo" the "ulg>ul"...
