miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Monday, December 30, 2013
A paper worth reading
›
There is a fascinating paper by David Tuggy on a verb in Orizaba Nawatl, detailing a verb that has no stem - it consists, entirely, of gram...
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Detail #72: A diachronic origin for present participles
›
In some language with a moderate case system, whatever case can be used for complements goes on the infinite to form an adverbial/complement...
Friday, December 27, 2013
Detail #71: A weirdo place to put auxiliary-like things
›
Make some auxiliaries be genitive attributes of the subject, and add a copula between the subject and a somewhat less inflected (possibly in...
Detail #70: A participle-like form
›
In the participle-rich language I described way back , one of the participles could perchance work a bit like this: Applies to a verb rela...
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Detail #69: A detail regarding comparative and superlative adjectives
›
I am generally somewhat cautious about including comparatives and superlatives in non-European languages (granted, there's no one-to-one...
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Detail #68: Participle-morphology on non-verbs
›
In some conlang with a system of four participles - active perfective, passive perfective, active imperfective, passive imperfective - and w...
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Detail #67: Nouny 'and' and a noun class
›
I recently read of a language where the conjunction and is inflected like a verb. Suddenly the notion of having a very nouny and appeared ...
‹
›
Home
View web version