Sunday, July 2, 2017

Detail #349: Generalizing Order of Magnitude-prefixes

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The SI units come with prefixes that specify orders of magnitude - all the way from very small fractions to reasonably large - on a human s...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Detail #348: Finely Grained Reciprocals (and potentially reflexives)

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One of the structures English uses for reciprocals is "one another". This, I've always interpreted as a sort of parallel impl...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Detail #343, pt 2: Differential Number

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One position where differential number can make sense is after numbers themselves. In many languages, numbers are followed by singulars...

Detail #347 pt II: A Meatier Description of Quirks by Featural Design

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One of my faithful readers asked for a meatier description of the thing I described in the previous post. Here goes. Let's consider...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Detail #347: A Possible Quirk of Featural System Design

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Ever since I read an analysis of the Russian case system in terms of binary features, I have been thinking a lot about featural analyses o...
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Dairwueh Case System: Cases as Bundles of Features, pt II

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Dairwueh has five cases, nominative accusative dative genitive locative-instrumental The following treatment only deals with the u...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Sargaĺk: 2nd Person Interaction with Demonstratives

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In Sargaĺk, the demonstratives can interact with the 2 nd person pronouns in two interesting ways. When redirecting attention to a new...