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Thursday, February 1, 2018

Tiny Unnumbered Detail:Case Spreading

In a language with case, in phrases such as 'man against man' or 'man against nature' or 'day by day', have case spread to the left, so that both nouns always are marked by the same case whenever the NP is not clearly part of a VP.

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Miniatureconlangs seeks to present appealing descriptions of grammatical details in imaginary languages - imaginary languages that have no more grammar than the short description presented here. Real linguistics, but also thoughts on conlanging, conworlding and other non-narrative fiction appear intermittently.

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