miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Monday, March 26, 2018
Detail #377: Number vs. Collectiveness meets Morphology, and a Verb Voice is Accidentally Born
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Consider a language which has fusional marking for number and something else . A familiar situation is of course case , but we could also c...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Detail #376: Quirky Adjectives
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There are some obvious 'quirky' things an adjective could be made to do, e.g. itself be in a strange case or cause the noun to be i...
Monday, March 5, 2018
Detail #375: A Weird Pairwise Voice Construction
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This post is adapted from a comment I almost made in a facebook conlanging group, but has been reworked a bit. The first half of the idea...
Friday, March 2, 2018
Detail #374: Cases and coordination blocking
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Coordination is often a relevant thing with regards to identifying the syntactic structures underlying a language. A question like 'are...
Monday, February 26, 2018
Detail #373: The Copula vs. Habitually Becoming
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One could imagine that a certain set of adjectives or nouns instead of being expressed with the regular copula, instead were expressed with...
Friday, February 23, 2018
Detail #372: Limited Tripartite Marking for Participles
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Not only nouns in verb phrases and congruence on finite verbs can showcase alignment. Participles are a main other locus of alignment. Engl...
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Detail #371: Quirky Coordination
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I previously posted a list of quirky things beyond case suggesting a few different places to place systematic quirks. So, I acquired the h...
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