Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Detail #396: Antideranking

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In many languages, subclauses and main clauses have somewhat different properties. The differences may appear in any number of subsystems - ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Detail #395: A Way of Forming Genitive Constructions

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So, I came across a quote from some text today that stated that "the genitive case seems to have survived linguistic evolution moreso t...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Detail #394: A Detail in a Language with Subject and Object Verb Marking

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Let us consider a language that has both of those; let us further consider the language to have two reflexive markers, one for singular sub...
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 ...