miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Detail #187: Onwards with #182
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Let us consider idea #182 and add some complications. Let's posit that the language further has some verbs where the subject has excep...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Tatediem: The Noun Classes (Obsolete Post)
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This post is obsolete Although the noun class system is pretty stable in most of the languages related to Tatediem - Tatediem itself be...
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Tatediem: Relative Clauses
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Relative clauses in Tatediem use slightly different constructions depending on what argument is relativized. Relativized subjects are fairly...
Friday, July 24, 2015
Tatediem: Descriptive Comitative Possession
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In Tatediem, it is possible to form phrases along the line of "with his arms bare" using the following pattern: cong 1 -ADJ def 2 ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Ćwarmin: A Regional Quirk in Forming Large Numbers
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Most Ćwarmin dialects have calqued their way of forming numbers beyond a thousand from Bryatesle. However, in the far west, there is a com...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Detail #186: Inverse Habitual Marking
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Imagine a language where some verbs are inherently habitual, and some inherently punctual or momentane or such. The same marker serves the ...
Monday, July 20, 2015
A Review: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics
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A Review: The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics (Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis) A few years...
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