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Saturday, May 22, 2021
Detail #410: Degrees of Definiteness and Tension between the Degrees
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English has two levels of definiteness. Definite signifies that the referent is (expected by the speaker to be an) established referent in t...
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Detail #342: Other Quirky Things besides Case
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Quirky case is probably familiar to anyone with an interest in case systems. We could, however, considered similar lexically caused quirks ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Short Sketch #5: Definiteness marking and definiteness types
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Definiteness is a thing some languages do not grammaticalize to the extent English does, and on the other hand, some languages have it even ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Further possession-related things
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A thing monoglot conlangers tend not to realize is that possession often is used somewhat differently in different languages. Consider sen...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Short Sketch #4: Definite and indefinite verbs
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Verbs come in two main forms, sometimes differentiated by suppletion, mostly by some simple but not entirely predictable morphology. (Probab...
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