5"x7" Glass plate negative This view by E.A. Cohen of the Tavern of Tamalpais taken from along side the railroad tracks leading to the tavern. The Tavern was originally built in 1896 and burned in 1923.
Cohen spent a lot's of time on Mount Tamalpais taking over 200 photos of Mount Tamalpais and over 455 photos of Marin County. He photographed the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway, gravity cars, Willow Camp now know as Stinson Beach, Bolinas, Mill Valley and other locals in Marin County.
The Mount Tamalpais railroad was known as "The Crookedest Railway in the World" and ran from 1896 until 1929.
And steam locomotive Heisler No. 2 by E.A. Cohen and some early views by Fred Ransome of the Gravity cars and Shay No. 7 at the summit yard.
The Mill Valley station of the North Shore Railroad and early photos of the Dipsea Race in Mill Valley.
"I force-feed fish" would be "1-ERG fish-ERG eat", with a pro-dropped thing that's getting eaten. That bit is problematic, usually in ergative langs the absolutive NP is mandatory, or at least more mandatory than the ergative one. I would expect that to be able to express “I force-feed fish”, you’d...
Indeed, it seems like I missed that fact. It does seem that the causative is a lot more general than "agent".
Generally speaking ergative and passive sentences look more or less the same, the only exception being that a passive would be clearly a derived structure while an ergative sentence is an underlying structure (hence passives being marked with some form of construction). In most ergative languages, ...
Adding a causer/agent to a passive verb is usually just called 'reintroducing the agent' and the result is sometimes 'agentive passive'. Agent Patient Verb <- Active voice Agent Patient Verb-Passive <-Passive voice Patient Verb-Passive Agent-OBL <-Agentive Passive construction If you used a causati...
My point with causatives is that "to be eaten" / "to eat" can be reanalyzed as "is eaten" / "cause to be eaten"; so removing an ergative from a transitive sentence to express the passive can be reanalyzed as adding an ergative to *any* intransitive sentence to express the causative.
This question is really about whether a feature in a conlang I'm making is realistic or not, so sorry if it belongs more in the conlangs board. But it is also about how real-life languages with ergative-absolutive alignment work, and it seems like the conlangs board is just about showing off conlang...
So I finally just got into clicks. Ok. This ǃ˞ does not seem to want to combine with superscript h or vowel letters without making something or another generally unreadable. I don't wanna drop just this one particular click nor do the digraph ǃǃ . What's a good font to get around this? Also a good ...
Mawacin doesn't have tense. Should it have an aorist aspect to denote the aspect in English "He walks across the building"? Does syncreting this into the gnomic (which applies to sentences like "I love you" and "the Earth is big") make any sense, or would doing so be relexing English?
The title contains a Hungarian sentence cited quite a few times by Turks who try to argue that Hungarian is Turkic. Apparently the Turkish equivalent is "cebimde çok küçük sarı elma var". AFAIK, Uralic and Turkic are not considered to be related. What is the mechanism behind the regular similarity o...
Verb conjugation classes There are three main verb classes in LogJ:monograde (MN, itsidan ) and quadrigrade (QD, jodan ). There is also a marginal r-irregular (Irr, ra-hen ) verb class containing various auxiliaries. Using the traditional Japanese principal parts (this may be extremely confusing fo...
Can I ask for a little clarification? You claim Japanese to be similar to a loglang but you didn't list at all the reasons why you may think. In my opinion, Japanese is not more logical than English, Hindi or Proto-Ugric. What is the special factor of logicalness that it has more than any other lan...
I like what I see. :D Extra points if you can weasel in Classical Japanese stuff like nari/tari :P Relative clauses & advanced verbs coming soon will lug in so much CJ that the language is more CJ than NJ :P Here's a sample (LogJ is actually finished, just writing about it takes time): Nerusi issjo...
"LogJ". Unambiguous stack-based logical language trying to maintain as much back-compatibility with Japanese as possible. Still complex sentences are probably impossible for Japanese speakers to follow correctly. Boku wa rokugatsu de Nihon e ikitari, iroirona son uwo niku motte tsukurareru susi to s...
LogJ (yes, that's the name, please feel free to suggest non-atrocious ones!) 論理(ろんり)? or some other word based around some meaning of logic. Anyway, I don't know much about Japanese, but this sounds like a pretty cool project! I'll be keeping tabs on it. [:D] Yeah, since an English-based loglang sh...
taylorS wrote: When a language has a single set of plosives (say, /p t k kw/ are they usually voiced between vowels, or does it just depend on the language?