miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Detail #229: Grammaticalized "Selectedness"
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A thing that could be somewhat similar to definiteness, but also to some other things nouns can distinguish. Let us consider the mental act...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Dairwueh and Bryatesle Indefinite Pronouns
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The Bryatesle indefinite pronouns, according to my old grammar for Bryatesle, followed the pattern given below: (7) DN (1) SK (2) ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Detail #228: Conegative Verbs with a Lexical Twist
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Consider the system present in many Finnic languages, where verbs have forms without (much) congruence whenever the verb is negated, i.e. ...
Monday, October 26, 2015
Indefinite Pronouns in Ćwarmin and Sargaĺk
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Again I want to turn your attention to ye merrye conlangre's little typological treatise on indefinite pronouns . It is gold. With...
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Detail #227: A Syllabary with a Quirk
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Consider a language where there is a bunch of very uncommon syllables, i.e. these syllables appear in about a handful of words. Now, syllab...
Detail #226: A Twist on Verb Markings
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Let us consider a language where verbs usually have a fair share of meaningful morphemes on them whenever they're used in whatever form...
Friday, October 23, 2015
A Noun Formation Pattern common to Ćwarmin and Sargaĺk
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Sargaĺk and Ćwarmin share a few patterns in word formation, patterns that have spread from one to the other, and generally also tend to be p...
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