miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Detail #200: Conflated Participles and Culture
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Imagine a language where you have your usual passive and active participles. However, for some verbs, these are morphologically conflated (...
Detail #199: An Ergative Subsystem in a Language with Absolute Directions
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Let us consider a language that otherwise is fairly accusative in its alignment. Intransitive verbs of movement or transitive verbs that im...
Friday, August 28, 2015
Detail #198: Some Uses for a Case Restricted to Certain Possessums
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Consider the following statement: I have a book We could consider having a special case that appears in this, giving us instead a cl...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Detail #196: Pronouns pertaining to Contrary Interests
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Consider situations where people together do something, all in order to safeguard their own interest – in opposition to each others' in...
Detail #195: Contrastive Pronouns for Enumeration
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Consider a fishmonger asking a customer which fish the customer wants: "this one? or this one? how about this one?" There c...
Monday, August 24, 2015
Detail #194B: Contrastive Dummy
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A dummy pronoun with the contrastive case mentioned in the previous post could be a pretty intriguing thing: instead of saying "but X...
Detail #194: Contrastive Marking
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Let's consider differential object marking (DOM) along the Baltic Finnic type, i.e. one of the cases is universally used with negative ...
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