Linguistic Musings

This is just data I gather for fun. Better thought-out discussions on some of these themes and others may be found on the Topics page.

English

• English Syntactic Musings - Interesting syntactic things in English
• English Quotatives - Collection of quotatives in English
• JNW's English - Jonathan North Washington's idiosyncracies in the way he speaks English
• ABraver's English - Jonathan doesn't like the way I speak
• Pronunciations - Dialectical differences in people other than JNW
• Æ - the vowel I call /Æ/
• Proto English Vowels - some comparative data, aiming at reconstructing a proto-Modern-English vowel system
• Australian English hiatus - /r/, /j/, /w/

Turkic

generative stuff

• Kypchak rounding harmony - needs work, ugh.
• Kazakh Syntax Topics
• Turkic Sonority Constraints - needs work, ugh.

comparative stuff

• Turkic words in Yiddish - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
• Relations to Turkic - Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups
• Turkic sound changes - attempts to reconstruct Turkic
• Changes to Turkic - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages
• Turkic words that shouldn't be as they are - Cross-dialectal borrowings?

other

• Exclusive coverage of musings from Kazakhstan
• Kazakh pages - more Kazakh topics
• Why Turkic languages are awesome =)
• Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects

Yiddish

• The Weirdnesses of Yiddish Indirect Questions
• Yiddish noun classes
• Is Yiddish an Eastern Germanic language?
• Turkic words in Yiddish - Beyond kabaks and kavanes

Romance

• Faux Genders - The discrepencies between Romance-language cognates' genders
• Gender of nouns in Spanish - Rules in Spanish for noun gender

Misc

• Kabaks and Kharbuzes - Several words for squashes and pumpkins and melons and watermelons in many of the world's languages are similar. Take a look.
• Random musings about potential relations

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