miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Detail #384: Long-Range Negation Congruence and Probabilistic Grammars
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Let us consider a language like Finnish (or almost English), where negation is done by an auxiliary. In this language also, the main verb t...
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Bryatesle: Word-Order Sensitive Words
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A few words in Bryatesle have some fairly different uses depending on where in the clause they stand. These examples are part of literary Br...
Sunday, July 8, 2018
A New Song
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This song is a rework of an old song. Each voice of the old version has been inverted around some 'B' close to the middle of that v...
Friday, July 6, 2018
A Challenge: Origin of Person Congruence
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Can anyone come up with other origins of person congruence than pronouns that are merged with the verb (or, for that part, merging the verbs...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Ŋʒädär: Further with the Reciprocal
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It has previously been stated that the reflexive pronoun ŋul- in Ŋʒädär can encode both reflexive and reciprocal meaning, but that the diffe...
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Detail #383: A Tiny Idea about Mixed Alignments
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All the low-hanging fruit regarding mixed alignments and alignment in general probably already has been picked (and even cooked into marmal...
Monday, June 25, 2018
Sargaĺk: Reciprocality and Reflexives
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The Sargaĺk reflexive marker -fuš- is cognate to the reciprocal object markers 'sy(v)-' and '-sus' of Bryatesle, all three g...
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