http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ My blog about linguistics en Vox Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:04:53 +0200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/e-and-o-grades-in-verb-and-their-origin.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/e-and-o-grades-in-verb-and-their-origin.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/e-and-o-grades-in-verb-and-their-origin.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:04:53 +0200 One might not realise it, but typologically the Indo-European verb is actually incredibly strange. Depending on your reconstruction the Aspect is marked in two or three ways, while actually marking it once would be enough and is enough in the majo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/e-and-o-grades-in-verb-and-their-origin.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600fad6969e850005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> old norse indo-european pre-indo-european vowel harmony altaic proto-indo-aegean i-umlaut ablaut vowel grade http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/no-phonotactic-e.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/no-phonotactic-e.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/no-phonotactic-e.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 31 May 2008 16:12:57 +0200 A while ago I posited the idea that the paradigm for 'foot' in Indo-European might have a phonotactic schwa insertion. Glen Gordon spook out against this, saying it was paradigmatic levelling rather than a phonotactic constraint. I didn't want to ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/no-phonotactic-e.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600fa967aa03b0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> greek sanskrit syncope reduplication pre-indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/not-present-heightening-after-all.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/not-present-heightening-after-all.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/not-present-heightening-after-all.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 16 May 2008 22:30:39 +0200 Last post I started telling you about how the present seemed to be some kind of vowel heightening form the perfect; due to its type of suffixes. In retrospect I consider this to be very wrong. I sometimes have days I try to merge everything with e... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/not-present-heightening-after-all.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600fa967609e20003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> greek indo-european reduplication pre-indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/present-vowel-heightening.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/present-vowel-heightening.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/present-vowel-heightening.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 10 May 2008 01:01:23 +0200 One of the greatest problems with Indo-European, is that the common reconstruction of the language's phonology is typologically unlikely to impossible. Lately I've been focussing on the vocalic system. The general idea is that there were two or ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/present-vowel-heightening.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600f48cf67d620002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> perfect present linguistics indo-european pre-indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/prenasalised-i%E2%81%BFdo-european.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/prenasalised-i%E2%81%BFdo-european.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/prenasalised-i%E2%81%BFdo-european.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:04:38 +0200 For my job I have to work through an enormous amount of Journals, collecting every single article I can find that may be relevant to the Etymological dictionary of Greek. After collecting them I put them into a database and pass them on to R.S.P. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/prenasalised-i%E2%81%BFdo-european.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600f48cf1ee6c0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> indo-european r/n-stems pre-indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/a-strange-iu-alternation.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/a-strange-iu-alternation.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/a-strange-iu-alternation.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:29 +0200 What I've always found fascinating about Indo-European is that there seems to be many isoglosses that alternate certain vowels. *e/o alternations in, for example the genitive *-es/-os. Then there's the *i/e alternation in reduplications. Where we ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/a-strange-iu-alternation.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600f48d0b41980001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> latin greek sanskrit indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-unification-of-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-unification-of-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-unification-of-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:04:07 +0200 For some time I've been wondering about the Indo-European genitive forms; Which anyone who reads my blog with any regularity has surely noticed. As some of you may know, Indo-European has a different genitive form the nominal inflection than for ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/the-unification-of-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600f48d08c4780001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics greek sanskrit indo-european qar pre-indo-european http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/language-and-evolution.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/language-and-evolution.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/language-and-evolution.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:37:32 +0100 It's been quite fashionable to equate language change and evolution lately. In many ways language can be described as a living 'being', depending on your definition of life of course. Personally though; I feel that this idea is fundamentally flaw... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/language-and-evolution.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398e308ef0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> language evolution http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:47:10 +0100 A while ago I quite quickly accepted the possibility of a contraction of Homeric Greek genitive ending -οιο to -ου, as seen in the most dialects. Now I'd like to argue this once again! First of all, this is not the commonly expected contraction o... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-genitives.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398de9aeb0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> future greek indo-european graeco-iranian genitive sanskrit. linguistics http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/delving-into-the--lf-of-wolf.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/delving-into-the--lf-of-wolf.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/delving-into-the--lf-of-wolf.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:52:38 +0100 About a week ago, I was telling my mother about that mysterious word *ulkʷos and its odd reflexes in the Indo-European languages in general, and Germanic languages especially. She kindly pointed out to me that there aren't that many words in Dutc... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/delving-into-the--lf-of-wolf.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398dd9c150004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> dutch wolf germanic indo-european