miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Detail #361: Auxiliaries for Voices
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Consider a language where even pretty 'simple' voices like reflexives and reciprocals are expressed using auxiliaries. This provide...
Monday, November 13, 2017
Detail #360: Fun With Complementizers
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Complementizers appear as heads of all clauses in some theories of syntax. In most theories of syntax, they are also at least the heads of s...
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Detail #359: An Ergative Language with Phrasal Verbs
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In English, there are a bunch of object-like nouns (that under some analyses are objects), that are marked by prepositions. These occur wit...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Detail #358: A Congruence System with some Quirks
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For certain kinds of congruence, there are two main types we can consider: morphosyntactic congruence semantic congruence The former ...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
Dagurib: The Copula
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Out of the three Ćwarmin-Ŋʒädär branches, the Dagurib branch (being the smallest, and even omitted in the main name of the family) has copu...
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Detail #357: A Syntactically Split Alignment
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Most split alignment systems only have split alignment in the case marking, and not really in the underlying syntax. The split often also ...
Friday, October 20, 2017
Ćwarmin Geographical Terminology
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Ćwarmin covers a relatively large area of plains, with some mountain ranges at the edges of the area, and a few hills and the occasional mo...
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