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I edited it to add capitalization and paragraphs; this is a fascinating question to me.

by aesthetics; bengali; by functionality korean

I should probably elaborate on what sense I mean. Sorry if the explanation is complicated but the question is complex. And I acknowledge it is somewhat speculative. Let me explain; as you probably know; Hebrew is the one case of a dead language being revived and now it lives again; but I have read t...

I am talking about a phonominon that is very rare (but not wholly nonexistent) in natural languages; but because it is so rare i accept the possibility that examples might have to be taken from conlangs. this is called "transative alignment"; it is also nicknamed "monster raving loony...

I have a question about something that is rare in natlangs but does exist so i am unsure if it qualifies as conlang. but some languages use "Direct alignment"; where both arguments of a transative verb are marked the same way; and rely on pragmatics to indicate who does the action and who ...

During research on English spelling reform (in short: main barrier is vowels, rhotics and voicing in different dialects) I have come to the conclusion that English is at least partially logographic and will only become more so as time passes. Am I right to conclude this? Is English really logograph...

one thing about my conlang; bayerth is that it inflects its verbs for modality; but one of the modalities works in such a way that if you translate it literally; you lose the point; more verbose translations are possible and more accurate to the true sense however. this modality is called "The ...

in my conlang, bayerth, there are zero irregular verbs (irregularity is limited to one thing, inflection of pronouns); even 'to be' is regular; but I found a thing that justifies this to a degree; I split to be up amongst many different verbs; creating different words for over a dozen senses of the ...

interesting; can anyone here provide me with some examples of how internally headed relative clauses work in real life languages? In Pesh, IHRCs have the syntax of independent clauses, with AOV order. The head must be a subject, object or possessor in - otherwise, an EHRC is used instead. In the pa...

very interisting so far;

thanks for providing more clarity; i was aware of the pronoun in the matrix clause method; I just was unsure if it was an internally headed relative clause or not So far as I can see, it's not traditionally considered so, but I'm not sure that's really logical. ; when I said "is the head noun ...

thanks for providing more clarity; i was aware of the pronoun in the matrix clause method; I just was unsure if it was an internally headed relative clause or not; when I said "is the head noun itself implied only through context and subject matter?" that was a mistake; I omitted a couple ...

what I mean is that internally headed relative clauses have no relative pronoun on which to put the case declension or place to put a gap; so do they rely on the context and subject matter (and possibly grammatical agreement on other words) to establish the role of the head noun in the relative clau...

I have read that some languages use internally headed relative clauses; so, for example, instead of saying "the man that we met yesterday went home today"; they position the shared noun in a relative clause, so they use a structure that literally translates into English as "we met the...