miniatureconlangs

I assume everyone knows of the relativization hierarchy by now.  1. A Second Relativization Hierarchy Let's instead imagine a species wi...

It is conceivable that a language distinguishes the following meaning-structures in the morphology of its reciprocals: A acts on B and B act...

Normally, reciprocals take a plural noun (or several coordinated noun phrases) and make the entities that make up an agent (or comparable ro...

In the Bryatesle-Dairwueh religious landscape, there is a variety of mystical practices in the religious communities. Some schools of mystic...

Through the years, I have suggested some typologically unlikely, and maybe even some typologically impossible ideas in this blog. I find typ...

Passives and reflexives sometimes are fairly similar (and in some languages even indistinguishable). One of the Russian passive construction...

As usual, my real life language example will come from Swedish (a habit I really need to break). This time, we're looking at word order ...