miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Tatediem: Various subordinating conjunctions
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As you may recall, Tatediem has a slightly peculiar 'and' - morphologically it is a noun. (Oftentimes, though, conjunctions are abse...
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Barxaw: Register, lexical intensification and comparatives
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In Barxaw, my isolating conlang, intensity of verbs and adjectives is lexically coded - thus, running, running fast and running slow are se...
Monday, June 16, 2014
Detail #90: Even more congruence shenanigans!
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As the one trick pony I am, I present even more congruence things! Let us assume something a bit like the previous post: gender/class or n...
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Detail #89: Curses
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How about a language where almost all curse words are verbs, and defective ones at that - so they only ever really occur as finite verbs?
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Ćwarmin: The Verb and its Non-finite Form(s)
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The Ćwarmin verb morphology, as previously stated, has a bunch of derived nouns (and adjectives) which might somewhat approach gerunds and ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Reflexivity in Tatediem
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Tatediem has a complication with regards to its reflexives. Transitive verbs come in two varieties, and for want of a better term I will des...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Detail 88: Verbs of motion
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Often, languages differ in what exact things they encode in their verbs of motion: is it manner (run vs. walk vs. slouch vs. mosey vs. hobbl...
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