There’s something I’ve found interesting about the semantics of perfectives in different languages, but which I don’t think […]
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This post is a bit chain of thought, so apologies if it doesn’t quite reach a firm and […]
This post follows on from my previous post on light verbs and classifier constructions in Algonquian and Australian […]
Since I mentioned my background conlanging project on Twitter recently, I thought I’d sketch out what I was […]
The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis and claims about languages influencing thought are old and widely regarded as falsified. And I […]
This one isn’t a long one, but I found an interesting case of active vowel disharmony in Nora […]
I recently acquired a copy of Murrinhpatha Morphology and Phonology, partly because it was relatively cheap on Amazon, […]
It’s not so easy to find good books about Amazonian languages, but there are a number of interesting […]
I’ve been reading Lynda Boudreault’s A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca, and the behaviour of glottal stops is both […]
Yesterday I was looking for examples of synchronic processes (e.g. vowel epenthesis) driven by a clear and simple […]
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