Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Spatial Prefixes in Dargi (van den Berg)
Today's paper is about spatial prefixes in the East Caucasian language Dargi. While this might seem like a very narrow and specific topic, I'm sure there's alot to talk about. Now onto the prompts:
- How does your language handle spatial deictics?
- Are deictics marked on the verb as in Dargi, or does your language use adverbs or relational cases?
- What semantics are covered by these morphemes? Are there exceptions concerning the encoding of these semantics?
- Are there any lexicalized expressions or idioms using the morphemes encoding spatial deictics?
- If you considered diachronic processes like sound change or grammaticalization while creating your conlang, how did the spatial markers arise?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next saturday, and happy conlanging!