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.
Towards a Semantic Typology of Adversative and Contrast Marking (Malchukov)
After a short holiday break, I am back with the weekly linguistic papers! This one, submitted by u/mareck_, presents a typology of adversative constructions, such as those introduced by English but and Russian но. Now onto the prompts:
- How are adversative clauses constructed in your language? Does it use conjunctions, affixes, or sth. else entirely?
- The paper describes some semantic connections adversative marking can exhibit. Are any of those present in your language? Are there any connections that aren't described in the paper, but are still used in your language?
- If you considered diachrony while creating your language, how did adversative constructions arise? Any fun historical processes going on there?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!