Since Twitter is currently struggling with the conundrum of how to assign gender to inanimate objects, I thought […]
Author: chrisintheweeds
I’m still struggling with the problem in my previous post, namely the need to know a bit about […]
I haven’t written a blog post for a while now. It’s mostly because I’ve been trying to expand […]
Originally posted on The House Carpenter:
In modern standard English, the following basic kinship terms exist: father, mother, uncle, aunt, cousin, brother,…
I love , but I also hate it. Once you’ve got everything set up, the ability to just […]
Today I’m going to write briefly about Mayan possessed-heart constructions. The examples are from the book Language, Culture, […]
The fascination of the day is polysemy in perception verbs. To illustrate what I’m talking about, let’s take […]
Here’s another fascinating thing I kept meaning to post about: the semantics of control morphology. First, the conventional […]
Continuing the dive into modality, I’ve been looking at the scope of irrealis marking in different languages. Irrealis […]
I’ve spent quite a bit of time re-reading bits of The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood, and […]
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