Saturday, October 19, 2024

Conreligion Checklist Sidequest: Religion as an analogy of language

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Language is not merely a vocabulary and a set of rules for how to generate and parse well-formed sentences. A proficient speaker also knows...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Conreligion: Lirbexper Funerary Rites and Beliefs

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In Lirbexper belief, the afterlife begins as a member of a war party in the battle against various supernatural entities. Some parts of the...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Detail #440: Generalizing V2

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V2 is a peculiar syntactical structure present in western and northern Europe, which governs where the finite verb goes in a main clause. Hi...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Detail #439: Quasi-parts of speech and quasi-constituents and the Locus of the Abessive

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Different languages are analyzed with different sets of parts of speech and constituents/parts of sentences. To some extent these boil down ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

About Bryatesle and its relatives

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About Bryatesle and its relatives Bryatesle is a dialect continuum encompassing about 30 million native speakers. It is the lingua franca of...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Detail #438: Split Marked Nominative

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Split Marked Nominative is a phrase that struck me out of the blue, and I felt like it needs a post. However, let's begin by looking at ...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Regulations of Minor Dairwuo-Bryatesle Religions

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The Dairwuo-Bryatesle communities are religiously dominated by a rather powerful "conglomerate" of religions, a dozen organized mo...