Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Detail #392: Participles, Alignment, Congruence and Restricted Voice Marking

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What if a language did not distinguish by any uniquely dedicated morpheme what voice a participle has, but instead did so by having congruen...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Detail #391: A Number

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And by 'a number', I mean a grammatical number. Not a new integer or uniquely weird algebraic entity in some odd field or algebra. ...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

A Link About Trigger Systems and ideas about dogs that lead to ideas about pronouns

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This link was posted at the ZBB recently, and I figured readers who do not frequent that board might find this interesting. Paul Kroeger...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Detail #390: Participles Used in Odd Ways

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In many Germanic languages, one can form adjectives that describe 'being equipped with' (or something along those lines) by forming ...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Detail #389: A Set of Affixes on some Adpositions

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This gets a bit abstract, and in some way feels familiar. I had envisioned this idea as fitting into one of my conlangs, but I don't re...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

A personal update

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Over the two last years, I have found myself planning and writing ever more ambitious things for this blog. Because of the scopes of these ...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Some thoughts on nullar and indefinite numbers

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Every now and then, ideas like 'nullar number' or 'indefinite number' make the rounds in the conlanging sphere of the intern...