miniatureconlangs
A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Detail #403: Number Distinction on Plural Personal Pronouns
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Let us consider a language where the plural personal pronouns are formed using two strategies: plural morphemes and root suppletion. Thus, ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Detail #402: Gender-congruent Nouns under Possession
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Gender congruence in adjectives is sort of old-hat. However, let's consider a gender congruence that affects the gender of the main noun...
Friday, October 9, 2020
Real Language Examples: The Case of the Complement and Logic
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Preamble I recently started a blog in Swedish, where I discuss - from a serious linguistically informed point of view - some of the common ...
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Ŋʒädär: Pondering Participles
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These are just some early musings on a part of Ŋʒ ädär grammar. It is not very structured, but is provided as a sort of glimpse into how it ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Detail #401: Finite verbs, infinitives and ...
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I have recently taken to writing longer, even more typologically informed posts that sit around in my drafts folder waiting to be finished. ...
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Detail #400: Converbs and Alignment-like phenomena
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Converbs are essentially verb forms that have some form of adverbial use. In some way one could also say they are "cases for verbs...
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Detail #399: Some notes on pro-verbs
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One of the things conlangers come up with every now and then - and which really do exist, even - are the verbal equivalents of pronouns. I a...
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