Sam G > 30-10-2016, 06:47 PM
Koen G > 30-10-2016, 07:13 PM
Quote:Pidgins are usually less morphologically complex but more syntactically rigid than other languages, usually have less morphosyntactic irregularities than other languages, and often consist of:
- Uncomplicated clausal structure (e.g., no embedded clauses, etc.)
- Reduction or elimination of syllable codas
- Reduction of consonant clusters or breaking them with epenthesis
- Basic vowels, such as [a, e, i, o, u]
- No tones, such as those found in West African, Asian and many North American Indigenous languages
- Use of separate words to indicate tense, usually preceding the verb
- Use of reduplication to represent plurals, superlatives, and other parts of speech that represent the concept being increased
- A lack of morphophonemic variation
Anton > 30-10-2016, 08:01 PM
-JKP- > 31-10-2016, 05:01 AM
(30-10-2016, 08:01 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The problem with some standard device or "grille" to generate meaningless text is that such method would produce regular text without any artifacts (like those posted numerously by Wladimir). In my opinion, Rugg's explanation (as reported by Pelling and Schmeh, I haven't read the original article by Rugg) can be waived off just on this basis alone. Strange that Schmeh says nothing about this.
Anton > 31-10-2016, 11:04 AM
Davidsch > 04-11-2016, 12:36 PM