Proto-Polynesian reconstruction and ambiguities in Hawaiian, …
2019年7月31日 · If it were *rima, Tongan would be expected to have *ima, and if it were *lima, Tongan would be expected also to have *lima. No other Polynesian language fully …
comparative linguistics - Is it possible to analyse Māori grammar ...
A more recent attempt to classify Maori word classes is that of Winifred Bauer, in The Reed Reference Grammar of Maori. She takes a very different approach to Biggs, although starting …
Timescale for language divergence at ~10,000 years: Polynesian ...
2021年12月23日 · Cool! Thank you for the detail. It's useful to know that 13,000 years also exceeds the splitting of other language families (except possibly Afro-Asiatic), the effect of …
linguistic typology - How to distinguish a polysynthetic language …
The "one word or two" question is notoriously difficult to answer, and has no general solution (so people apply ad hoc criteria in deciding for a given language). The polysynthesis question …
Any languages that don't have consecutive letters?
2018年6月23日 · But it's harder to figure out whether a language can never have consecutive vowel letters. Double vowel letter digraphs are fairly common as symbols for long vowels. And …
language acquisition - Is there a word order that is more natural …
2024年8月3日 · See my answer in Maori and Hawaiian. VSO. When the case system is lost, SVO is the best word order that require no case system to tell S apart from O. When changing from …
linguistic typology - Are there any languages with minimal …
The ones that have been claimed to lack the N/V distinction include e.g. Riau Indonesian, Niuean, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Tagalog, Kambera (and there are more -- just google). If you define …
Is it possible to determine the number of words in a language?
2015年9月6日 · Yes, following the reasoning of The Vastness of Natural Language by Postal and Langendoen, a natural language has an infinite number of words. I don't recall any good …
Are there highly analytic (isolating) languages without tone?
2022年3月15日 · Central flores langauges of indonesia It might have been more inflectional but due to the fact the speakers spoke another language and switched to the languages of central …
syntax - Why are many ancient languages so complicated …
Thus, mastery of language was considered one of the essential elements of what it meant to be a Roman. In Roman plays, the parts of Romans always use proper language and foreigners are …
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