Comments on bulbulistan: liveblogging GHILM 3

Hey! Anyone alive here? A comment (from the di...

2011-09-01T11:20:56.115+02:00
Hey! Anyone alive here?

A comment (from the discussion) by Frans Plank a propos basic vs. derived forms: "In Proto Indo-European, what we see as basic is actually derived. Etymological dictionaries of Indo-Euroean list roots as verbs which is probably more science-fiction than science."

You don't happen to have any details on that, or at least could tell me which journal I should watch?

Anyway, on the topics of PIE, metathesis, and a PIE root you once blogged about, I was just alerted to this journal. Many papers are open-access. Check out this one (pdf) and take a good look at the very first item in the list of lexical comparisons (p. 5). Could lead to emotional turmoil. :-)

hell, I was sitting next to him for about two h...

2011-07-01T14:57:31.304+02:00
hell, I was sitting next to him for about two hours before I realised who he was

I hate it when conference participants don't wear their nametags.

Hello! We have a blog about topics related to dif...

2011-04-27T20:13:39.988+02:00
Hello!

We have a blog about topics related to different foreign languages.

http://translation-blog.trustedtranslations.com/

We would very much like to get your insights!

Amelia

how native speakers would grammaticalize foreig...

2011-04-22T15:25:53.554+02:00
how native speakers would grammaticalize foreign vocabulary
With verbs, it's a wee bit complicated (essentially, the morphology of borrowed verbs is concatenative) but nouns... Suffice it to say that broken plurals are regularly created from borrowed nouns. My favorite example is stejjer which is the plural of storja. Vowel quality change, metathesis and gemination, oh my!

Ah, and having checked Wikipedia (which I should have done in the first place), I see Stolz is correct. Thanks!

Hat, well, I didn't hear it pronounced by the...

2011-04-17T16:15:47.742+02:00
Hat,

well, I didn't hear it pronounced by the man himself (hell, I was sitting next to him for about two hours before I realised who he was), but IIRC, he was introduced by Thomas Stolz (who is a native speaker of German, so grain of salt etc.) as /'kɔmri/.

It does all sound fascinating, but what I really w...

2011-04-17T16:04:53.137+02:00
It does all sound fascinating, but what I really want to know is: am I correctly pronouncing Comrie as /'kamrai/?

All of this sounds fascinating, and I'd really...

2011-04-16T17:31:44.595+02:00
All of this sounds fascinating, and I'd really like to have a look at the final version of this binyan priming psycholinguistic experiment. It'd be interesting to see how discontinuous morphology is grammaticalized in the lexicon, and for that matter (more broadly applied), how native speakers would grammaticalize foreign vocabulary according to binyan patterns (or not).