PhoeniX’s blog Vox 2009-12-18T02:27:51Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00ccff939f53d756/ My blog about linguistics hmm prenasalisation or syllabic m? tag:vox.com,2009-11-13:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddbcd106860b 2009-12-16T12:16:59Z 2009-12-18T02:27:51Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Tibeto-Burman (and also Sino-Tibetan) are language that lean rather strongly on their prefixes. There exist some suffixes (most commonly -s) but most things are encoded in the prefix. For example the prefix *s- is a typical and well attested pre...

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]]> More tal-k on stem extensions. tag:vox.com,2009-12-16:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123dddedca7860c 2009-12-16T09:17:08Z 2009-12-18T02:28:37Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Some time ago, I wrote a blog post on a possible 'causative' Indo-European stem extension *p. I'm currently quite interested in the function of these stem-extensions and the phonetic alternations they seem to have. Soon I'll be writing more about ...

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]]> *sprefixes in Indo-European tag:vox.com,2009-11-23:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddea553b860d 2009-11-23T20:04:34Z 2009-11-27T12:38:37Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom After discussing Tibeto-Burman prefixes, and touching upon the *s- prefix in Tibeto-Burman, I sort of ran into the Indo-European s-mobile again. For those unknown to the s-mobile, it is a unexplained element *s that seems to optionally appear in ...

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]]> Thibetan Aspirates tag:vox.com,2009-11-20:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddd58875860c 2009-11-20T15:25:38Z 2009-12-18T02:29:37Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've been reading up on Proto-Tibeto-Burman/Sino-Tibetan lately. I've run into a problem with the aspirated consonants which I have not yet been able to solve. In Proto-Tibeto-Burman we reconstruct two series of stops: Voiceless and Voiced. Tibet...

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]]> The problem with *i and *u in Semitic tag:vox.com,2009-10-27:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123f17408e1860f 2009-10-27T19:43:21Z 2009-11-27T15:48:06Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom One of the typologically puzzling things about Arabic, and Semitic languages in general, is that /i/ and /u/ very often contrast with /a/, but hardly ever with each other. This is usually an indication that these are allophones, but this explanati...

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]]> Marijn van Putten, BA tag:vox.com,2009-10-19:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddd9c282860d 2009-10-19T20:09:22Z 2009-12-16T10:34:28Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom That's right after 3 years and a bit, I am now officially a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. Yay me, and yay for shameless self-promotion! So I finished my final Bachelor Thesis with a score of 9/10, that is to say, pret...

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]]> Cold Kaki's tag:vox.com,2009-10-13:asset-6a00ccff939f53d75601240b68ef89860e 2009-10-13T19:05:15Z 2009-10-14T09:03:21Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Recently I've been doing a class on fieldwork, in this class we have an informant who speaks Minangkabau, a Malay dialect spoken by about 5 million people around Padang (which was recently hit by quite a severe earthquake). Last week it was my tu...

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]]> Afro-Asiatic is weird tag:vox.com,2009-10-03:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123f167602b860f 2009-10-03T12:12:53Z 2009-11-02T18:16:39Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom As the title says, I am often perplexed by afro-asiatic. I've learned some Arabic and Hebrew, followed a class on comparative semitic, I have a (hardly looked at) book on Egyptian, and I'm currently following a class on Riffian Berber and general ...

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]]> 19th of October tag:vox.com,2009-10-03:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddbd9318860c 2009-10-03T11:19:35Z 2009-10-04T06:13:16Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom The 19th of october, that will be the date that I will be defending my Bachelor thesis on Consonant Gradation in the Verbal System of Proto-Indo-European. This defense is open to public, if any reader happens to be around and wants to come, he is...

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]]> One shall not Stop to blog! tag:vox.com,2009-09-15:asset-6a00ccff939f53d7560123dda283ac860b 2009-09-15T23:48:45Z 2009-10-03T11:22:52Z PhoeniX http://phoenixblog.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Hey guys! Long time no see. My Bachelor thesis was eating a lot of time, combined with work on the Greek Etymological Dictionary and me just simply enjoying my holiday. But I'm back, with this word that has been bothering me for some time now. Th...

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