miniatureconlangs

I recently read a PhD dissertation from the late 80s about the development of incongruent expressions in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic lan...

Reflexive possession is expressed in a few different ways in languages. I am not aware of any language like this from before: I throw ball =...

Time for even more real language examples . And as usual, I have dug deep in the grammar of my native language to find a belated hannukah-gi...

I have been reading up a lot on reflexives in different languages, and this inspired me to write a little on the different types of reflexiv...

There are reasons to think Proto-BDS had pluralia tantum. However, the languages that have emerged out of it have done some interesting dist...

Consider a language with singulars, duals and plurals. The language has a rather strict distinction between mass and count nouns, and explic...

English has some ambiguity with its possessive pronouns, but the level of ambiguity could be taken to a weirder level in this way: reflexive...