miniatureconlangs

A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Detail #319: A Pronoun Quirk

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A really minor quirk one could have in a language is marking the gender of a different person on the pronouns of some person; maybe even ha...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

I have bragging rights

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It never crossed my mind to brag about this when it was relatively recent, but ... a piece of mine was included in a microtonal compilation...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Detail #317: Indirect Object Marking and Possessive Suffixes

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Many languages have possessive suffixes. There's some kind of semantic similarity between being a recipient or indirect object and bein...
Monday, November 7, 2016

The Anatomy of the Description of a Conlang

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My previous post got a question that got more difficult to answer the more I was thinking about it. Is this meant to be a simple quirk o...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Dairwueh: Semi-genitive Adjectives

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In Dairwueh, there is a set of adjectives whose congruence pattern is slightly off. Their behavior differs in one particular spot: for nomi...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Detail #316: An Indirect Imperative

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Have a way of inflecting imperative-like forms for the person who gave the command and for the time and aspect of the command-giving. One po...

Dairwueh demonstratives

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Dairwueh has two and a half level of demonstratives. The two basic ones are 'this', av , and 'that', xev . The third, ŋev...
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