Re: Idea: diachronic change wiki

We could always create an article on Frath called, say, "Attested
sound changes" and categorise those changes by way of ubiquity
("universal, widespread, common, occasional, seldom, rare"), by
language family, by trigger ("spontaneous, emulative, sprachbund") or
some other such criteria. On the other hand we could just have a very
long table with all these parameters listed.

Eugene

2007/1/21, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>:
> I've had the idea for a while of using a wiki as a place where people
> could list diachronic changes they've run across -- especially
> interesting or non-intuitive ones, but even obvious ones would be
> cool, since what's obvious to one person might not be to another. I
> have come across a lot of interesting changes, but never had any
> centralized place to note them, and I figure a collaborative
> repository for such information would be even better than a personal
> one.
>
> I am interested in pretty much any sort of diachronic change --
> phonological, lexical, semantic, morphological, syntactic, you name
> it. (I suppose dialect variation might work into this somewhere too,
> but it might complicate things.) Ideally, all entries would cite
> sources, although as far as conlanging is concerned I'd rather read
> about an interesting change without a source than not read about it
> at all.
>
> What does everyone think of this idea? If it were to go forward,
> would it be possible to use existing conlang wikis? What are some
> potential problems?
>