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Re: Phonological additions to Tsa'in

David Peterson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:15:37 GMT

... Glottalized voiced stops are implosives, and those are relatively common. -David ******************************************************************* "A

Re: Dad Spoke Only Klingon To Son For Three Years

Chris Peters — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:05:14 GMT

... I heard a different interpretation -- that the boy rejected Klingon once he reached pre-school age and started interacting regularly with other children.

Re: Phonological additions to Tsa'in

Paul Bennett — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:46:22 GMT

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:08:22 -0500, Jesse Bangs wrote: [On the distribution of onsets and codas] ... Well, if you can come up with more

Re: Acopular languages

Mark J. Reed — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:42 GMT

I would have guessed that bur for it being atached to the verb in the latter examples.. ... -- Mark J. Reed

Re: Acopular languages

Carsten Becker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:52:23 GMT

... Yes, it does. ... I wasn't sure here, because so far "be/exist" is only dropped with predicatives. On the other hand the PP there fits the slot a

Re: Acopular languages

Roger Mills — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:51 GMT

... But the next three exs. suggest that there is indeed a word for "to be"-- or does it rather mean something like "exist"? ... My Gwr, in those cases, would

Re: Acopular languages

Carsten Becker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:52 GMT

... AGenT. I thought that was standard abbreviation practice? Just in case, PAT was for PATient, INAN was for INANimate, PTCP for ParTiCiPle. C.

Re: Dad Spoke Only Klingon To Son For Three Years

Alex Fink — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:34 GMT

... probably no stranger than some Caucasian or Native American langs.:-)) ) And small children tend to bond more closely with the mother. Now if it had been

Re: Testing the Rhiemeier Hypothesis

David Peterson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:39 GMT

... You know what you could do: Just so the articles stay up for historical purposes, you can just write a disclaimer, or some other little introduction that

Re: Acopular languages

Mark J. Reed — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:42:06 GMT

AGT? ... -- Mark J. Reed

Re: Dad Spoke Only Klingon To Son For Three Years

Roger Mills — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:40:17 GMT

... Agree on both counts (K. is/certainly could be a possible human language, probably no stranger than some Caucasian or Native American langs.:-)) ) And

Language & Personality Survey

Mark Henshaw — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:43 GMT

OK, I finished polishing up the inventory and it turned out to be 60 questions total. Feel free to send it to other linguist-types that you know; I'd like to

Re: Acopular languages

Carsten Becker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:19:18 GMT

... I've consciously done that, and gloss an omitted "to be" as a zero-copula accordingly: Ang Mahān Ø bedangas. AGT Mahān (be) farmer.PAT. "Mahān is a

Re: Testing the Rhiemeier Hypothesis

Jörg Rhiemeier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:01:46 GMT

Hallo! ... I have made up my mind and decided to leave them in place. It is not that the auxlangers' mails are such a big nuisance; I receive less than one

Re: Acopular languages

Jörg Rhiemeier — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:53:04 GMT

Hallo! AFMCL: Old Albic has two copula-like verbs, one (_h-_) expressing nature and identity (like Irish _is_ or Spanish _ser_), the other (_b-_) expressing