miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
An Old Classic
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This is an old post of mine from another blog, slightly edited. Cartesian Product Conlangs This will be familiar to anyone who has ta...
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Detail #25: Interrogatives and verbs
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I have been thinking about very simple interrogative systems, something along these lines: one interrogative particle, which I for now w...
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 ...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Detail #24: Voice Morphology on occasional nouns
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I came up with an idea that kind of provides a possible road down which to take the question of challenge #3. Reusing voice morphology o...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Challenge #3: Verbal morphology occasionally affecting nouns
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In English, past participle-like morphology sometimes is used in combination with nouns to create a kind of adjective pertaining to possessi...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Detail #23: Conjunctions with dummy pronouns
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This idea has some similarities to this old post , but with quite a different locus of marking and even basically a different function altog...
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Detail #22: More flexible morphology
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Consider the role syntax has, in Russian or Latin, for determining which argument is the object or whether a certain noun is definite. Imagi...
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