miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Detail #274: Negation and Alignment
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Imagine a language with verbs having slots for both subject and object markers, thus: verb-subj-obj-other.stuff Oh, this language is ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Detail #273: Passives and Semantic Roles
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One thing that could be interesting is to have the passive more sensitive to the semantic role of the object of the verb; thus, objects that...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Detail #272: A Potentially Weird Grammaticalization Path
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Consider comparatives and plurals; we could imagine combining the two to form the meaning of ' even more than previously mentioned ...
Detail #271: A Really Minor Detail
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Consider a morpheme along the lines of English 'too'. This word has multiple meanings: ~even: a baboon, too, was set to appear on ...
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Detail #270: Experiment with Minimal Words
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Let's consider a word whose earlier form has been one along the lines of ʕə or n̩ or something else very very small. Let...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Historical Linguistics - Some Thoughts
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Historical Conlinguistics are hard. I am currently trying to figure out Proto-Ćwarmin-Ŋʒädär(-Dagurib), so that I can get on with developin...
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Sargaĺk: Basic Directions and Direction-Metaphors
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Sargaĺk has several different important directional adverbs, and also a number of related locational adverbs. A few directional adverbs...
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