miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Detail #63: 'to have' in Ćwarmin
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As described in the previous post , Ćwarmin has a special accusative for reflexively possessed objects. This combines with some normally i...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Detail #62: That case system
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The case system I made up as an example case system to describe some possible adverbial quirks was, imho, surprisingly good, so I figure I ...
Friday, October 18, 2013
Detail #61: Some adverb quirks
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Adverbs are a part of languages where conlangers seem not to go into any huge amount of detail. There probably is a bunch of reasons for th...
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Detail #60: A lexical derivation detail
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In some language lacking grammatical gender, form adjectives/nouns for members of ethnicities or tribes by female members designated as [...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Onwards with Detail #59
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So, what cool things could we do with detail #59? An obvious origin for it could be retention of dual first persons for just a few verbs. ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Detail #59: Limited clusivity
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Imagine a language where first-person plurals can be inclusive/exclusive, but only in certain specific situations. The most obvious thing wo...
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 ...
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