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.
A typological perspective on nominal concord (Norris)
This week's paper was submitted by u/priscianic and presents a typology study of nominal concord. The paper defines the phenomenon as "[...] the process whereby modifiers
(loosely speaking) in a nominal phrase inflect for morphosyntactic features of that nominal
phrase." Nominal concord is quite well-known through its presence in many European languages, like French or German. Now onto the prompts:
- Does your language exhibit nominal concord?
- If so, what concord categories are there? (E.g. gender, number, case)
- Which words agree with the head noun? Is it restricted in any way, or do all modifiers exhibit nominal concord?
- How does nominal concord interact with other morphosyntactic phenomena?
- Is there anything that blocks agreement? Is antiagreement an observable process in your language?
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!