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Is it naturalistic for a language with person and/or gender agreement on a verb for the verb to agree to the person/gender of the possessor when it would agree with a possessed noun? I.E Pora ra kyebra. dog-nom.sg def run-pres-3sg.an The dog runs Eli pora kyebre. 1sg.Gen dog-nom.sg run-pres-1sg And...

Both sound good. You could check Larry Hyman's website for examples from natlangs. He has worked a lot on directionality in tonal processes.

I like this one

I like the general feel of your conlang, in syntax and orthography/phonology. The only thing that bugs me is the (my?) font that is displayed in this forum. All schwas look really wide and it looks better in other fonts. That's not really something you should care about though

Nortaneous wrote: ↑

02 Jan 2019 18:33

Early branch of IE splits off and goes so far east that it somehow ends up in the PNW where it belonged

or in PNG.

I like the combination of several layers of dualism with the idea of four or five elements. In some respects it feels almost alchemistic.

Does anyone know of any languages with fairly simple phonologies - especially ones with small phoneme inventories, and possibly ones with very simple phonotactics - that have a good amount of morphological alternations? I can think of rendaku and Lyman's law in Japanese, and those stem extensions t...

I didn't have access to the forum for some time, and I am busy with christmas stuff now, so you might as well have a go @GrandPiano.

Feminine Agent Nouns Suffixes [...] -er → -ster By far the most common way to form the feminine form from the suffix -er Bäcker → Bäckster (baker) Schreiver → Schreivster (writer) I think I heard of all of these in either German or Low German, except the -st- suffix. What was the inspiration? Engli...

Does anyone know of any vowel length alternation systems that have developed recently? Or that otherwise have a well-understood origin? And would anyone happen to have links or info about such a system? Well, I did just hold a presentation on the development of certain vowel-length alternations in ...

I haven't read Francois' article, but it's worth pointing out that PAn *R is just insane everywhere. Reflexes of "*R" span literally an entire alphabet - /d/, /g/, /h/, /j/, /k/, /l/, /n/, /N/, /r/, /R/, /s/, /w/, /x/, 'y' (Blust lists both 'y' and 'j', not sure what values they have) and /z/, as w...

Lexember fourth: Er'u < üpfe'uh > /ypfəʔuː/ [ˈʔʏp.fə̹.ˌʔuː] preclausal modal particle 'it seems that ...' (related to the current theme because it German 'to shine' and 'to seem' are the same verb) < Üpfe'uh erwe'ü wie je'uhsu. > /ypfəʔuː ɐvəʔy viː jəʔuːsu/ [ˈʔʏp.fə̹.ˌʔuː ˈʔɐ.və̹.ˌʔʏ ˈviː ʝə̟ˈʔuːsʊ...

Feminine Agent Nouns Suffixes [...] -er → -ster By far the most common way to form the feminine form from the suffix -er Bäcker → Bäckster (baker) Schreiver → Schreivster (writer) I think I heard of all of these in either German or Low German, except the -st- suffix. What was the inspiration? Engli...

Lexember third: Er'u

<özie> /øtsiː/ preclausal causative particle (related to the current theme because light and heat are pur causation )

<Fü özie erwe'ü wie je'uhsu.>
/fy øtsiː ɐvəʔy viː jəʔuːsu/
1SG CAUS people eat ANTIP
"I make people eat."

Is there anyone who still wants to make a guess for round three?

Prestopping of resonants is my favourite phonetic feature ATM. What languages have them? In which contexts they have appeared diachronically? Hiw has a prestopped velar lateral from Proto-Oceanic *r. Is that an unconditioned change? I am not sure. You can read about it on Francois' website, here . ...

Lexember 2nd < je'uhsu > /jəʔuːsu/ postverbal antipassive particle (vaguely related to the theme, because the opposite ("anti") of passive is active, which heat and light are.) < Erwe'ü wie je'uhsu. > /ɐvəʔy viː jəʔuːsu/ people eat ANTIP " People eat. " Syntax tree https://abload.de/img/lexemberseco...

Er'u Lexember first Pföhne /pføːnə/ resumptive pronoun for object relative clauses (related to the theme because theses are considered the first grade pronouns because they are bound in the lowest containing noun phrase excluding their own noun phrase) < Ü'upfien ahwäh erwe'ü wie pföhne fie'uh ahpf...

Old Gotski Eм конѧгс конѧьеро. / 𐌴𐌼 𐌺𐍉𐌽𐌴𐌼𐌲𐍃 𐌺𐍉𐌽𐌴𐌼𐌾𐌴𐍂𐍉 /em konẽg̊s konẽro/ Mordern Gotski (Sortsbergish) Em konegs konejas. /em koneg̊s konejas/ Túrnnu E sun lu régh de réghes. /e sun lʌ reɪɣ də reɪɣəs/ Nortzääenglisch Ik öm de küninng of küningen. /ɪk øm də kynɪŋː of kyniŋgən/ Dnukta’u Bu’lqhah bui...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑

30 Nov 2018 20:16

Prestopping of resonants is my favourite phonetic feature ATM.
What languages have them?
In which contexts they have appeared diachronically?

Hiw has a prestopped velar lateral from Proto-Oceanic *r.