miniatureconlangs

A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Detail #369: An Unusual Type of Word

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A word class that is fairly common in European languages, and undoubtedly elsewhere as well, is the conjunction. Here, of course, a small w...
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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Detail #368: A Verb-like 'Than'

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Obviously, one can have a verb that compares things with things. This is the basic notion behind exceed-comparatives and the like, but also...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Detail #367: Neutral Participles

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Consider participles that are not marked for voice at all. (Note: the English past vs. present participles are rather passive vs. present, ...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Detail #366: A Morphophonological Quirk

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For examples here I'll use cases. However, this applies to any prevalent morphological thing - tense, aspect, volitionality, evidential...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Sargaĺk Cases as Bundles of Features

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In this post I try, in retrospect, to analyze the case system of Sargaĺk in terms of features. Unlike the post on the case system of  Ŋʒädä...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Detail #365: Quirky Case and Morphological Intrigues

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Let us consider a language that, like Finnish or Russian, marks the agent-like argument of 'to have to' with a non-canonical case...
Monday, December 11, 2017

A Composition

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I recently uploaded another track onto Soundcloud. Here it is: As usual, it's not in standard tuning - as most of my compositions ov...
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