miniatureconlangs

A blog about imaginary typology in imaginary languages.

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Conreligions Checklist III: Scripture, Language, Sex

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 Scripture What function does it have? Laws? Moral guidance? Ritual praxis? Just-so stories? Philosophical consideration? Philosophical spec...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Detail #438: Pronouns that behave differently

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I didn't find a good heading for this, so an explanation is in order. English actually provides a morphological example of this idea: he...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Split Ergative details in Proto-Cwarmin

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 Although Cwarmin itself has very little in ways of ergativity, most languages of the same branch keep some split ergative features of sligh...

Detail #437: Unusual Grammaticalization Path for the Ergative

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 In some languages, accusative marking is only used whenever the subject is not clear from verb congruence, i.e. Yukaghir where first- and s...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Detail #436: Really quirky stuff with the nullar number

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Nullar numbers probably don't really exist in any natural language, but let's imagine they do. Let's now further imagine a langu...
Friday, November 10, 2023

More Questions for a Conlang Grammar

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Word order operations Can emphasized words in subclauses be fronted to the onset of the main clause? If so, does this cause any weird effec...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Conreligions Checklist pt II: Holiness, Time keeping, Death

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Onwards with questions regarding religions! Holiness What is it? 'Holy' is one of these adjectives whose actual meaning is somewhat ...
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