User talk:Camilla.zecker/sandbox2

Angela's Peer Review

My Overall Impressions I think you’ve done a great job including everything from the grammar works and practicum preps and adding more examples to fully explain these concepts. You also give equal weight to sections proportionally to their complexity. For example it seems that Kulina’s morphology is much more complicated than its phonology or syntax and this is represented by a very detailed morphology section. I think your strongest areas are the flow and continuity of the article (you divide things into clear sections and give little introductions to each subsection) and your explanations, which are usually very clear and easy to understand. I think the areas you could work on most are clarifying a couple of very specific details (which I discuss below) or maybe adding some more examples.

Lead I think your lead section is really strong and presents some wonderful background information about Kulina. One minor suggestion might be to expand on why people who can read and write in Kulina but not Portuguese are functionally illiterate. Are there vanishingly few books/poems/writings in Kulina? Or, are writings in Kulina limited in their usefulness somehow?

Phonology

Vowels: Are /o/ and /u/ phonetically distinct from each other? It seems like they aren’t, but you might want to clarify this.

Does your chart use the symbols used by your grammar/does your grammar use IPA? If not, perhaps you should put the IPA symbols in brackets so that you can accurately cite the grammar.

Are /ɛ/ and /ɨ/ allophones or separate phonemes? (I’m not sure what you mean by “occasional variations.”)

You may want to start the total number of vowels in Kulina. It’s unclear how many are phonemes that are meaningfully different and how many are allophones.

Consonants: You might want to add a line saying phonemes on the left are voiceless and those on the right are voiced.

Syllable Structure: This section is really clear/well-explained. I especially like the chart showing where syllable types occur in morphemes. The only thing you might want to add to this section is some examples.

Stress: This section is also awesome. The only thing that might be a little vague is the term “complex words.” Do you mean words with more than one morpheme? You could also say an asterisk instead of a *.

Morphology

Affixation: Does Kulina have types of affixation other than verbal affixation? (If I remember correctly from the practicum, it doesn’t). This is interesting, so you might want to explicitly state that all affixation is inflectional.

You may want to define gloss terms like “NAR.”

You could add some more examples to give equal representation to affixation compared to other morphological processes. You give more examples for reduplication and suppletion.

Reduplication: In your first example, it looks like there is reduplication in both the subject and the verb. I don’t think you fully explain this in the text above the example. Is this always the case for reduplication when the verb stem has more than one syllable? In the second example, there seems to be no reduplication on the subject (the jaguar). Do you know if this is because it’s a different type of reduplication or if it has something to do with jaguar not being a pronoun (whereas in the first example “I” is a pronoun).

Suppletion: This section is very detailed, giving all examples of transitive verbs with suppletive stems. There are a few things that are a bit confusing. I read the table to say that “fall” and “be born” are the same word. Is this correct? Also, you state that there is sometimes a third form for the dual. When a dual form is not listed, would one use the plural form if referring to two objects? If this is the case, then why is “hashi na-“ listed as both the dual and plural form of the verb “sit on the ground.”

Additionally, you may want to include intransitive examples, where the stem indicates the number of subjects.

Syntax

Word Order: What does (A/S) mean? You might want to define all the letters used.

You can use the wikicode posed on Piazza to line up your 3-line gloss examples. I would also define any gloss-terms used.

If you want to add more examples to this section, you might consider adding examples in the past tense or the future tense.

Headedness: These examples are all great. Did you find any examples of head-initial pairs. If you did, you might want to include one to represent that type. Angelapaoletta (talk) 17:54, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Ruth's peer review

Hi! Overall, this article looks really good and it’s clear that you’ve put effort into it. Good job dude!

General/content things

Introduction

• In general, I think the information you have in the intro is good, but it feels a little wordy! It would be great to slim it down a bit

Verbal affixation

• What happens to the gendered verbal affixes when the subject of the verb isn’t a human? Are there gendered nouns, and if so, do you just use the gendered affix that corresponds to the gender of the subject?

Suppletion

• Can you link to the wikipedia page that describes suppletion?

Word Order

• Can you explain what A/S means?

• I feel like it’s not totally clear if the word order is SV(A/S)OV, or if there are two main word orders which are SV, and (A/S)OV?

Specific things about wording

Introduction

• I noticed that when you’re referring to the speakers of the language sometimes you use -s to designate plural and sometimes you don’t (ex/ “this means that kulinas…” and “a number of Kulina know how to read…”

• I would cut the sentence “Kulina is still spoken…” because the sentence that follows is a better, more specific expression of pretty much the same thing.

• The last phrase of the intro (“so most are therefore functionally illiterate”), I would cut because it seems to be more about the social world of the people who speak the language, instead of about the language itself.

Syllable Structure

• When you say ““If there are two vowels, they may not be the same” it’s ambiguous: are they not allowed to be the same? or they might not be the same?

• maybe link to a wiki page that describes what morpheme-initial/internal/final means

Stress

• It would be cool to translate these examples!

--Ruthanneliseschultz (talk) 16:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)