Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Ŋʒädär: The absolutive and the unabsolutive cases

›
The absolutive case in Ŋʒädär has a slight complication: for some nouns, it is in fact marked with an explicit absolutive morpheme in the s...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Detail #296: A Restriction on Possession

›
In Proto-Uralic (and even possibly Proto-Finnic), possessive suffixes could not be applied to subjects. This leaves an interesting morpholo...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Detail #295: Agreement with the Subject in Case Marking

›
This post uses the distinction between argument and adjunct without really ever providing any specific defition. I Should probably sometime...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Sargaĺk Words: Family Terminology

›
xane - mother ərges - father simi - oldest son simižar - oldest living son, if the oldest one has passed away tame - any other son sim...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Adjectival Congruence in Sargaĺk

›
In Sargaĺk, there is a very limited case congruence: an NP-initial adjective or determiner takes a case-specific congruence marker. However...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Case in Answers in my Conlangs

›
Single-noun answers to questions sometimes in some languages do not necessarily preserve case. If we think of English prepositions as case ...

Detail #294: An Unusual Way of Marking Reflexives

›
A thing that could be somewhat interesting would be to form reflexive objects by using a preposition and a pronoun. In the example sentence...