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.
Adverbial Subordinator Prefixes (Dryer)
This week's paper was submitted by u/PyrolatrousCoagulate, and talks about languages which mark adverbial subordinate clauses using prefixes. Just like the English subordinating conjunctions "because", "although" or "while", these languages have dedicated prefixes to express said semantics. In this week's TyPoW you can tell us about how your conlang handles adverbial subordinate clauses, and whether it uses prefixes for that as well! Now onto the prompts:
- How does your language mark subordinate clauses in general?
- How does your language mark adverbial subordinate clauses? Does it use prefixes, as described in the paper, or something else?
- Are there any interesting syntactic transformations that apply to subordinate clauses in your language?
- How did your language's adverbial subordinator markers evolve? Are they undergoing changes right now?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!