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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...

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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.

I feel like the text became a lot shorter in ring 2. I feel a bit guilty

Regierungsamtsinspektor is just a term for a low level public servant. Nothing about function, just about paygrade.

Also true, though it looks more like Missingsch to me

Just wanted to mention that it will take some more time to evaluate your proposals since there are so many cognates now. So don't expect the results too soon.

I have to admit that I don't like it. It makes it look like English to my mind. Curious - it's the exact opposite of English (in that English stressed the noun there, destressing and dramatically reducing the numeral - ainaz flaskaz aba > @flAsk@. And I don't think we have a similar category of cou...

Haha, sorry to disappoint. [:P] I must admit I didn't really understand your feedback from the first round, but I decided not to take the time to ask for clarification since I didn't want to prolong the second round any longer. I think the main thing I don't understand is how exactly you're using "...

Was there vowel deletion at some point in the history of the throsk part?

Time for the final round. I'll give you some more time, since you have to include a whole lot of cognates in the end. Full size https://abload.de/img/histoxround30ue6x.png Reduced size https://abload.de/img/histoxround3vji26.png Link: https://abload.de/image.php?img=histoxround30ue6x.png Feedback: @...