I mostly deal with Latin and Romance entries.
Appendices
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Categories
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Recategorize all 1099 Catalan words that are claimed to be 'inherited from Old Occitan' as either inherited from Old Catalan/Latin or borrowed from Old Occitan. ✓
Remove hundreds of fake Mozarabic words added by Romandalusí, often through thirty or so different IP's. ✓
- Sort through categories for Romance words claimed to be 'inherited from Latin' and remove the ones that were evidently borrowed, either from Latin or another Romance language.
- Move all 'Reconstructed Latin terms' which are in fact attested (in the appropriate time period) to the mainspace, with citations:
- Recategorize all ‘Terms inherited from Medieval Latin’ as one of the following: (largely complete)
- Inherited from Early Medieval Latin (attested up to ca. 10th c. AD)
- Borrowed from (later) Medieval Latin (attested 11th c. and later)
- Inherited from a reconstructed ‘Vulgar Latin’ term (unattested anywhere prior to 11th c.)
- Neapolitan clean-up:
Fix/check metaphonic plurals ✓
- Fix IPA transcriptions (largely complete)
Relemmatize verbs to ⟨-re⟩ spellings ✓
- Franco-Provençal overhaul:
Move all lemmas to ORB spellings ✓
- Add Swadesh list words (done with everything but pronouns)
- Add references to AIS/ALF/FEW wherever applicable
- Add altforms per DFP, LTA, and FEW
Phonological pet peeves
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- If a language has phonemic stress, its presence or absence should be indicated in monosyllabic words, not omitted for the sake of typographical convenience. Consider the minimal pair Anne :: an, that is /ˈæn/ :: /æn/. Representing both as /æn/ would fail to account for the differences in surface realization.[1]
- There is no such thing as contrastive syllable division or contrastive secondary stress in any of the languages with which I am familiar.[2] Any claimed example falls apart once one accounts for morphology.
- Night-rate :: nitrate = ⫽ˈnaɪt+ˈɹeɪt⫽ :: ⫽ˈnaɪtɹeɪt⫽[3] > [ˈnaɪt.ˌɹeɪt] :: [ˈnaɪ.ʧɹeɪt]. In other words, the reason they sound different is that the former (but not the latter) has /t/ and /ɹ/ split across two different morphemes, night-rate being a transparent combination of night and rate.
- Reagan :: raygun = ⫽ˈɹeɪɡən⫽ :: ⫽ˈɹeɪ+ˈɡʌn⫽ > [ˈɹeɪ.ɡən] :: [ˈɹeɪ.ˌɡʌn]. That is, the latter (but not the former) is a transparent combination of two nouns, ray and gun, each with their own underlying stress.
- ^ Anne-Marie [ˌanməˈɹiː], an artist [ə~ăˈnɑːtɪst].
- ^ Nor, I suspect, in any human language.
- ^ One could also analyse nitrate as a confix of ⫽ˈnaɪtɹəʊ-+-eɪt⫽, with nitro- having the prevocalic allomorph nitr-.