miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Detail #58: Kinship terms and morphology
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A thing that I hadn't noticed earlier but suddenly dawned on me is that in English, several of the closest kinds of kinships have nouns ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Musing: Congruence blocking blocking, feasible?
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Some introspection on me speaking Finnish recently got me thinking about things blocking congruence blocks. First, a description of the sit...
Monday, August 26, 2013
Challenge #5: Verbal numbers
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What possible things other than existential statements of amounts ("there are N so-and-so" → so-and-so N.verb) N repetitions o...
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Detail #57: Congruence blocking, again
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A language where specifically night-time actions take no verb congruence.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Challenge #4: Dechticaetiativity and Serial Verb Constructions
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Could dechticaetiativity be combined with serial verb constructions in a way that creates weird consequences in a language? I've been ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Detail #56: Verb Congruence Blocking / Quirky Case
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This detail might make it into Dairwueh: Coordinated verbs, where the first has a quirky case subject, the other verb has null congruence ...
Detail #55: Wackernagel adposition blocking
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If an adjective is extracted from a PP with a Wackernagel-position adposition in it, the adposition becomes a preposition instead. Adjective...
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