Conlangery #11: Nonconfigurationality

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Conlangery Podcast

The Podcast About Constructed Languages

Kunst , Gesellschaft , Freizeit , Gesellschaft & Kultur

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vor 14 Jahren

Today we talk about nonconfigurationality, that is what languages do with word order when it’s not needed to show semantic roles. William regales us with tales of Navajo animacy-based word order, Nahuatl shifting its numerals around, and Ancient Greek’s confounding tendency to separate adjectives from their noun phrases. Also, we talk about Ayeri, a wonderfully [...]