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Dirnang Verb Phrase Structure
Note: this text was originally written in LaTeX and then converted using an LLM to HTML for WordPress. I apologise for any formatting errors. Other than that, I used ChatGPT for review and error spotting purposes and to generate the featured image, but I wrote the original text. Additional context: the language I am designing…
Verbal Morphology in Dirnang
Full disclosure: I wrote this myself without AI assistance as a LaTeX document (since I create pdf grammars using LaTeX), but I did use ChatGPT to do the format conversion from LaTeX to WordPress compatible HTML. I also used ChatGPT to generate an image to go with this article. The most complicated element of the…
Independent Verbs In Dirnang
1. Introduction My current conlang, Dirnang, returns to a long-term obsession of mine with languages with small systems of finite verbs. In this post, I want to describe the semantics of the verb class I’ve settled on. Some readers may not be familiar with such languages, but they are common in certain corners of the…
Chris in the Weeds 