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Cover of Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Fifty-One: Locality in Minimalist Syntax by Thomas S. Stroik. A solid blue background with the Linguistic Inquiry Monograph series' distinctive abstract, right-angle knot design in a white outline with a lighter blue accent color.
Screenshot from The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, p.139 Henry, professional football (soccer) player), Lori → Lolo (Lori Jones, track and field athlete), Sisleide → Sisi (Sisleide do Amor Lima, professional football (soccer) player), and LeBron → Bron-Bron (professional basketball player). One could argue that Didi, Coco, etc. were previously established nicknames that were assigned to Dietmar and Covelli on the basis of alliteration; however, LeBron is an uncommon name and the nickname Bron-Bron appears to have been created on the fly for this particular athlete. Double truncation of this kind has been attested as an established grammatical construction in several languages. Perhaps the most striking comes from Guarijio (Uto-Aztecan, Tarahumaran) inceptive reduplication, which applies to verbs denoting iterated punctual events (Caballero 2007; data from Miller 1996: 65–6): (30) toní ‘to boil’ to-tó ‘to start boiling’ [Guarijio] sibá ‘to scratch’ si-sí ‘to start scratching’ čonó ‘to fry (INTR)’ čo-čó ‘to start frying’ nogá ‘to move’ no-nó ‘to start moving’ kusú ‘to sing (animals)’ ku-kú ‘to start singing’ suhku ‘to scratch body’ su-sú ‘to start scratching the body’ muhíba ‘to throw’ mu-mú ‘to start throwing’ According to Caballero (2007: 278), “There is no independent process of truncation in the language, and the base is only shortened in this reduplicative construction.” These Guarijio inceptives are thus structurally parallel to Bron-Bron, but without the wordplay dimension that can enter into nickname formation.
Two gamer dudes gaming. One says, "What's your opinion on logical languages?" to which the other gamer dude replies, "As far as I'm concerned, all languages are 'logical' languages."
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There is linguistic evidence that English-speaking whalers must have taught a variety of pidgin English to the Chukotka natives. Whymper (1686), in a generally reliable account of Alaska and Chukotka in 1865-66, gives the following words and phrases of “broken English” uttered by Chukchi natives: (11) (about the engine of the ship:) Too muchee wheel, makee man too muchee think! (p.91) Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The language and its contacts with Chukchi, p. 326 https://archive.org/details/siberianyupikesk00reus/page/326/mode/1up
PIE *ə₁, *ə₁, *ə₁, *ə, *w (probably meant to be ə₁ ə₂ ə₃ corresponding to different flavors of laryngeals?) all corresponding to Proto-Tsimshianic w > y > h > ʜ > ᵒ > ˀ ('>' doing a lot of... something here) A Tsimshian Proto-Indo-European Comparative Lexicon, John Asher Dunn, 2017
ajaljib n. “awakening‐instrument” » ya-ja-la ji[bi] > yajal(a)jib “the awakening‐instrument” TIK MT 216b: Q-R » […]-ja ji[bi] > [ya]ja[l]jib PNG Plate sherd » ya-ja ji-bi > yaja[l]jib COL PSM Plate » ya-ja ji-bi > yaja[l]jib COL MRBA Plate see: aj-, -jib, y- from Erik Boot's Updated Preliminary Classic Maya - English, English Classic - Maya Vocabulary of Hieroglyphic Readings
Praat spectrograph and waveform of one of Kasaki Nozomi (CV Touyama Nao)'s lines from Liz and the Blue Bird. Bonus points to whoever can guess what it says
Epiphyllum oxypetalum flower shot with flash, lens focused on stamens
Epiphyllum oxypetalum flower hanging in front of a potted gollum jade
和我都麻母 / 畫尓可伎等良楓 / 伊豆麻母加 / 多比由久阿礼波 / 美都都志努波牟 wa-nga tuma mö / WE-ni kak-i-tör-am-u / ituma mönga / tanbi yuk-u are pa / mi-tutu sinop-am-u 1.S-POSS spouse FPT / picture-LOC draw-INF-take-TENT-ATTR / spare.time DPT / journey go-ATTR 1.S TPT / see.INF-COOR long.for-TENT-FIN ‘[I] wish [I had] some free time to draw a picture of my wife. I [would take it with me] on my journey and long for [her] while looking [at it].’ Kupchik, John. Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111078793
Shot from opening to Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX of Amate running in front of the stylized logo reading GQuuuuuuX
Soyo exploding on the other MyGO!!!!! members asking why they played Haruhikage
Stiebels' (1999) discussions are based on the fact that deverbal nouns in Classical Nahuatl tend to have the same kind of object prefixes as those which appear in the inflectional morphology of verbs. However, once we assume that TLA and the saturation of extra internal arguments are separate processes, the question arises as to whether the argument saturation process takes place before or after the nominalization . It is equally possible that the argument saturation process is already completed when the nominalization process is initiated; informally speaking, the process of the saturation of extra internal arguments in ditransitive sources may be a preliminary process which "precooks" the input for the patient nominalization process which can only be applied to a monotransitive source (not intransitive, not ditransitive). Sasaki, Mitsuya. Patient-noun Formation in Classical Nahuatl,
Diagram representing vowel elements as substance free tree structures, showing |a| [[Ø],[Ø]] + /o/ [[Ø],[Ø,Ø]] > /ɔ/ [[Ø],[[Ø],[Ø,Ø]] Cavirani, Edoardo and Oostendorp, Marc van. "A theory of the theory of vowels". Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology, edited by Kuniya Nasukawa, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512582-003