miniatureconlangs

Let's consider a language with a relatively rich verbal morphology. One thing in this language is a set of voice/transitivity operators...

It turns out that gender systems sometimes bring along syntactical complications. This post is not well structured, it just provides some i...

For a number of verbs, there are suppletive roots depending on the person and number of the recipient . The number of the recipient for thi...

Ŋʒädär has a construction that can express the notion of 'the X, the Y:er'. The quality or quantity  or even noun labelled X in the ...

Consider a language where each noun belongs to a multitude of binary categories, e.g. masculine vs. feminine, human vs. non-human, animate ...

Imagine a case that is associated in some way with counting. So, in its normal form, it appears on nouns after non-singular quantifiers. How...

It turns out that Yukaghir has a rather unusual split-intransitive core case system: Yukaghir combines pragmatic roles with syntactic roles...