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/
English sound changes - an attempt to derive various English varieties from Proto Modern English

Kypchak rounding harmony - needs work, ugh.
Kazakh Syntax Topics - problems of Kazakh syntax that need looking at
Turkic Sonority Constraints - needs work, ugh.
Kazakh a~ɯ problem - a problem of Kazakh phonetics (or phonology) that needs looking at

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?

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