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A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Bryatesle: Adpositions vs. Location and some thoughts on Subjecthood and Adpositions
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I will be talking about a technical notion of subject for a lot of this post, but at times, I will need to also refer to a less technical ...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Detail #30: Two ideas for lexical derivation
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Having perfective aspect morphology derive historically from a definite object marker is a bit been-there/done-that as far as ideas in this ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Detail #16, addendum #1: Wackernagel exceptions
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(This post provides further development of this idea .) In a language with some Wackernagel adpositions, adpositions are prohibited from ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Detail #16: Wackernagel Adpositions
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This must exist in some language, for sure. The Wackernagel position is the second spot in a phrase (and according to Newmeyer's Possi...
Monday, November 19, 2012
Possibilities #1: Comparatives on non-adjectives
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Fun things with comparatives and superlatives Superlatives and comparatives are not universal in human languages, c.f. Biblical Hebrew ...
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