http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ My blog about linguistics en Vox Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:16:59 +0100 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/mmmm-prenasalisation-or-syllabic-m.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/mmmm-prenasalisation-or-syllabic-m.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/mmmm-prenasalisation-or-syllabic-m.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:16:59 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/mmmm-prenasalisation-or-syllabic-m.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddbcd106860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tibetan sino-tibetan tibeto-burman http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-tal-k-on-stem-extensions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-tal-k-on-stem-extensions.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-tal-k-on-stem-extensions.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:17:08 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-tal-k-on-stem-extensions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123dddedca7860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> english germanic stem-extension http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/sprefixes-in-indo-european.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/sprefixes-in-indo-european.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/sprefixes-in-indo-european.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:04:34 +0100 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/sprefixes-in-indo-european.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddea553b860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> greek germanic sanskrit indo-european s-mobile http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/thibetan-aspirates.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/thibetan-aspirates.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/thibetan-aspirates.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:38 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/thibetan-aspirates.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddd58875860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tibetan sino-tibetan tibeto-burman http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:43:21 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-i-and-u-in-semitic.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123f17408e1860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> arabic proto-semitic semtic proto-berber proto-afro-asiatic http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:09:22 +0200 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/marijn-van-putten-ba.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddd9c282860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics thesis indo-european bachelor thesis consonant gradation http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:15 +0200 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/cold-kakis.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75601240b68ef89860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> dutch indonesian malay minangkabau bargoens http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:12:53 +0200 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/afro-asiatic-is-weird.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123f167602b860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> egyptian berber indo-european semitic afro-asiatic http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:19:35 +0200 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/19th-of-october.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123ddbd9318860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> bachelor thesis consonant gradation http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:48:45 +0200 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/one-shall-not-stop-to-blog.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d7560123dda283ac860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> english linguistics dutch germanic sanskrit indo-european causative stem-extension