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Vowel Disharmony

This one isn’t a long one, but I found an interesting case of active vowel disharmony in Nora […]

23rd Dec 2021 linguistics

Gestalt Meaning in Murrinhpatha Verbs

I recently acquired a copy of Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology, partly because it was relatively cheap on Amazon, […]

10th Dec 2021 linguistics

Linguistic Tidbits from the Amazon: Part 1

It’s not so easy to find good books about Amazonian languages, but there are a number of interesting […]

20th Nov 2021 linguistics

Glottal Stops in Sierra Popoluca

I’ve been reading Lynda Boudreault’s A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca, and the behaviour of glottal stops is both […]

28th Aug 2021 linguistics

The Syllable Contact Law in Synchronic Phonology

Yesterday I was looking for examples of synchronic processes (e.g. vowel epenthesis) driven by a clear and simple […]

3rd May 2021 linguistics

Light Verbs: Algonquian Finals and Australian IVs

Recently, I’ve been hunting for a good overview of Algonquian finals and their semantics. It’s easy to find […]

13th Mar 2021 linguistics

Split-Ergative Agreement and Transimpersonal Verbs

I’ve been thinking recently about agreement patterns, and I think there’s an interesting one at the intersection of […]

6th Mar 2021 conlang, linguistics

A Phonology Sketch

I wanted to share a rough conlang phonology sketch I’ve been working on, inspired as a kind of […]

18th Feb 2021 conlang, linguistics

Morphological Conspiracies

Confession: I’m bad at morphology when I try to invent it. Most of the conlangs I’ve designed in […]

7th Feb 2021 conlang, linguistics

Consonant clusters in Khanty

Originally posted on Freelance reconstruction:
My previous example of phonotactic combination analysis was on data that was, despite a few kinks,…

18th Jan 2021 Uncategorized

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