agglutinant: uniting, as glue
See tree for agglutinant: https://treegledictionary.org/define/agglutinant
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14YNAg_E_BE5Cze_SxXs9aqx5t8waZwZFxfFAnPK5F2g/edit?usp=sharing
A few things to think about as you read this:
(1) I haven't included any conculture stuff in the slideshow, but this is the language of a pre-industrial people who live along two rivers. Think of their area as similar to the US state of Missouri: a big east-west river that flows into a big north-south river at the eastern edge of their territory, with mountains to the south. (I didn't intend to replicate Missouri, but I did notice the similarity recently)
(2) The goal is to eventually make up and apply sound changes to create several dialects of this language (a main one, plus wacky ones spoken in remote areas). I would introduce words for modern concepts, modern ideologies, major world religions, etc. after these sound changes, in part because introducing foreign borrowings is a way of turning allophones into phonemes.
I'll confess: word stress is just not a feature of languages that particularly excites me. I go ga-ga over noun cases and phonetic inventories, but stress has always elicited a meh from me. As such, I've never really made a conlang with stress rules. At the same time, not only do I feel "unprofessional" as a conlanger because I've never engaged with stress, but I grow jealous as other people play with sound changes restricted to stressed or unstressed syllables and I'm stuck just voicing things intervocalically everywhere.
My current conlang is highly agglutinative and synthetic. I have inpositions, my nouns and my verbs can each take up to six adfixes, and many of those words are going to be compounds even before the adfixes come. I have been looking at agglutinative languages I know about to see what kind of stress system they have, and nobody has anything particularly interesting or complex. They seem to all either stress the first syllable or have no fixed stress. I guess the most "interesting" thing I've found so far is that Turkish apparently has no fixed stress, except for place names where it always stresses the first syllable? And that's not particularly interesting.
Is there a natlang out there somewhere I can look at for inspiration for doing something interesting with stress in a highly agglutinative language?
My husband had his sperm analysis results come back and we are confused by the results. The RE said his white blood cell count was "a little high" and wrote a prescription for an antibiotic for him to take. He said everything else was good. He didn't say anything about aggregation or agglutination. I would appreciate any information about what in the world those two things are and how the impact our chances to get pregnant??? and is there anything else concerning in his results??? The doctor was very vague and not very helpful. These were his results
pH: 7.6 Volume: 2ml Concentration: 45 million/ml Motility: 59% Total motile: 54 million/ejaculate Morphology: 8% normal forms Agglutination: <5% Aggregation: moderate WBC/spherical cell: 2 million/ml Epithelial cells/gelatinous particles: epithelial cells
So I'm running into an interesting problem.
I want to introduce evolutionary sound changes to Raaritli in an effort to try and rekindle some of my interest in it. Problem is...I don't know how to go about it with the intent of maintaining agglutination.
I know that most series of sound changes will often times elide and merge clitics / words together, and I would like to avoid doing such as much as possible as the agglutinative aspects of the language are what I find most interesting about the language. From my experiences with linguistic evolution that cuts out...quite a bit of potential changes. So my general question is how would you, as a conlanger, introduce phonological evolution while maintaining agglutination? And if elision / merging truly is impossible, where would you elide / merge and where wouldn't you?
Hello, are there some examples of fusional languages moving to become more agglutinative or analytic languages becoming more fusional? If yes, what's the mechanism of that?
I generally know how it works in the other direction: distinct morphemes in agglutinative languages fuse into one when languages move from agglutinative to fusional, and distinction between inflections is lost in fusional languages necessitating use of auxiliaries and prepositions when languages move from fusional to analytic.
For non-agglutinating language users, what this means in practice is that my language says "to her house" as "househerto" and "for your mom's" as "momyour'sfor", etc... which you can imagine leads to plenty of problems with spaces when google doesn't know the word perfectly.
Google has gotten much better at this in recent years, but it is still missing enough words for to be a massive annoyance while typing.
If it misses a word, I try to type the "root" word as is, and then want to add the affixes manually. Currently, it either adds a space or deletes the last character no matter what I do, which is more annoying than just having to hit space after each word. It would be handy to have a setting for us that would disable the automatically added space.
Tl;Dr: As you all might not be surprised to hear, Gboard still doesn't speak Hungarian very well. It would be great to have an option to disable auto-spacing after clicking the correction, because manual corrections happen quite frequently.
Take this musing with a (large) pinch of salt.
I know perfectly well that Russian is a synthetic language. But can the extensive use of prefixes and suffixes be considered similar to agglutination?
The doubt arises from when I heard my professor say that there might be underlying influence of Finnic vocabulary in Russian. Might this "influence" be extended to morphological elements, as well?
Feel free to insult my ignorance in the comments.
According to the analytical -> agglutinative -> fusional morphological cycle languages seem to implicitly follow, PIE's complex morphology must've come from a previous agglutinative stage. While there's a bit of information here and there stating they've uncovered some of the agglutinative origins of PIE (like -su being a plural suffix, or -m used to make accusatives) I'd like to know what current hypotheses there are on the matter. I know that PIE itself is a reconstructed language dating back to 5-7 thousand years ago, so making any decisions based on a reconstruction is at the very least speculative, but that doesn't mean people don't have ideas, right? The reason I'm asking this is because from what I could gather, mere phonological processes are not enough to prompt a transition from an agglutinative language to a fusional one. At least some analogical change is in due, along with reanalysis. But seeing precise examples, or at least confirmation from other linguists (and not just my hunch) would be reassuring! So what are the current thoughts on the matter? Is there anything that summerizes the current views on the topic?
Words you might not have heard of -
- alpenglow: the rosy light of sunrise or sunset seen on high mountains.
- agglutinate: To form words by combining words or word elements.
- calligram: A word, phrase, or piece of text arranged to form a picture of the subject described.
- vespertine: of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening. (from the Latin 'vesper' meaning "evening").
- carbuncle: a smooth, uncunt red stone, usually a garnet OR a large boil on one's skin OR (in heraldry) eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center.
These interesting words are taken from Vocab Assistant which is a vocabulary building chatbot.
Hey! We are post-3 IUIs with no success. I am looking back through the SA from them and all had slight agglutination (tail to tail) or slight aggregation and round cells (5.7 mil/ml) or immature sperm (11 mil/ml).
Iβm really frustrated with our clinic because once we had the initial appointment (via zoom), we literally never saw the RE again. Everything else is handled by the RNs so there was never an opportunity to review these results and ask questions. Is this normal at everyone elseβs clinics? Itβs literally our only option unless we want a 3 hr one-way drive.
He did see an reproductive urologist but due to COVID I didnβt get to go to that appointment and donβt know exactly what was said by the doctor (my spouse is non-medical and does not take notes well). He had a varicocelectomy almost 10 months ago. Iβm wondering if I should push for follow up with the urologist before anymore IUIs.
Just frustrating and of course, google MD tells me maybe his sperm should have been cultured when it had the round cells? Just hoping someone here has similar experience and better answers.
Obvioiusly, antibodies form lattices. Considering that the BCR is identical in antigen specificity to the soluble form, could clones be made to agglutinate with one another?
agglutinant: uniting, as glue
See tree for agglutinant: http://treegle.xyz/define/agglutinant
agglutinant: uniting, as glue
See tree for agglutinant: http://treegle.xyz/define/agglutinant
