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Perfectives: Beginnings and Endings
There’s something I’ve found interesting about the semantics of perfectives in different languages, but which I don’t think is mentioned very often or paid much attention in general writing on aspect. Specifically, it’s about the interaction of perfective aspect with telicity, and the extent to which the meaning of a perfective clause depends on the…
Non-Recursive NPs
I recently read Foley’s grammar of Yimas, and I wanted to share one particularly interesting aspect of it. I’ve got a pretty worn copy of Foley’s The Papuan Languages of New Guinea, which I’d strongly recommend for an overview of the region’s languages, and I’ve always found him to be very good at simple, readable,…
Why Noun Sandwiches?
This post is a bit chain of thought, so apologies if it doesn’t quite reach a firm and justified conclusion. It’s another indirectly conlanging related one… Ch’ubmin so far also has incorporated nouns sandwiched between the coverb and verb root, but I’m still not sure why that’s the “right” position for them. The next topic…
Chris in the Weeds 