Recently, I’ve been hunting for a good overview of Algonquian finals and their semantics. It’s easy to find […]
Category Archive: linguistics
I’ve been thinking recently about agreement patterns, and I think there’s an interesting one at the intersection of […]
I wanted to share a rough conlang phonology sketch I’ve been working on, inspired as a kind of […]
Confession: I’m bad at morphology when I try to invent it. Most of the conlangs I’ve designed in […]
Since Twitter is currently struggling with the conundrum of how to assign gender to inanimate objects, I thought […]
I haven’t written a blog post for a while now. It’s mostly because I’ve been trying to expand […]
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 […]
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