Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Detail #393: A Way of Marking Imperatives (and possibly optatives and jussives and the like)

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In some languages, there's congruence. Sometimes, this congruence also applies to, say, complements. Some languages have vocatives!...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Detail #392: A Twist on Adpositions

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I recently mentioned I have been fascinated recently with the notion of adpositions that take two arguments. However, an even odder twist o...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Real Language Examples: Discongruence in Swedish

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One reason I am taking many examples from Swedish is the fact that most readers know English. (How's that for an understatement.) The g...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Detail #391: A Small Idea on Imperatives and Similar Moods

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Thinking about the Dairwueh 'preprepositional' slot, that in some prepositions in that language can be used for certain things, I ...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Detail #390: If and Whether: Making a Tripartitie Division Instead

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In English, the word "if" prototypically marks conditionals. However, it can also mark indirect questions as well as lack of know...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Detail #389: A Differential Object Marking System with a Minor Twist

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Let us posit a language with a malefactive and a benefactive case. The benefactive is used for indirect objects that receive benefits from...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Real Language Examples II: Germanic Reflexives and some Issues in Swedish

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So, welcome back to this, the least didactically structured Swedish course ever, where we start out looking at the deep end of complex stru...