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Basic Vocabulary for Philologists (2014-10-13 17:43:31) :
[quote Morrígan, Countess]Cool; no idea what is the appropriate thing to do in that case; just go with the first element? That seems to be insufficiently a principled decision.[/quote]
For [i]nōn[/i], that's probably the best choice, since [i]nōn[/i] syntactically and semantically patterns with Sanskrit [i]na[/i], OCS [i]ne[/i], OIrish [i]ní[/i] and the like, and [i]not[/i] with words meaning "one". I agree, though, that this seems a very touch-and-go rule that won't apply to everything...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-13 17:45:31.
Basic Vocabulary for Philologists (2014-10-13 09:41:30) :
Etymologies are now divided into three: a root, a pre-root (which will take care of most prefixes) and a postroot (which will take care of most consonant add-ons). The question "what is a cognate?" remains, however. (This is especially true with true compounds, like Latin [i]nōn[/i], which comes from [i]ne+oynom[/i]. Should it be listed under [i]ne[/i], or [i]oynom[/i]?)
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-13 09:49:34.
Basic Vocabulary for Philologists :
I'm starting this topic to avoid cluttering up the Historical Linguistics thread with musings about it.
After a hiatus of a couple weeks- caused mainly by apathy deriving from a bout of depression- I'm right back working on this thing.
Currently, it's a bunch of spreadsheets. I have [i]Classical Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains sheets for Latin, Greek and Sanskrit; [i]Romance Vocabulary for Philologists[/i], which contains Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, F...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-12 20:51:13.
Bugs, Requests, and Changes (2014-10-12 17:43:08) :
Well, in the bad news, pthag was right and I am a terrible person.
In the good news, Octavia seems p reasonable to handle, so there is a reasonable chance I can do something for you if you want a change or find a bug.
edit: actually I think I am going to fuck around w/ the location system to make it less shit, is that coo' with everyone
owned by Hallow XIII, last edited 2014-10-12 18:17:19.
The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-10-12 16:56:12) :
So, I've been working on the Basic Vocab for Philologists again. For the Latin spreadsheet, I just got every word out of the Dickinson list as a spreadsheet column. One thing I would like to do is add any words that are also found in Wheelock's that aren't in the frequency list, although I don't know how to do that, since the columns aren't in identical format.
For Greek, the biggest frequency list is Dickinson's, although that's only about 500 words. Any words that are in Cheadle that...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-10-12 17:01:58.
Torco's Ramblings Xpost :
So I'm conlanging again after a long period of not really feeling like it, and probably since I'm sensibilized to the topic of how different languages fill up semantic space differently I got to thinking about how to make an interesting, complex, and unrelexlike lexicon for a conlang. For that, i got to thinking about comparative linguistis and I got a few ideas. Now this is all apriori and theoretically, i know very little actual knowledge about comparative semantics and wanted to share them ba...
owned by Torco, last edited 2014-10-12 12:35:40.
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