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Blaken Grammar
This is my conlang, the language of the Blakenian people. This language is young but it is eager to grow and bloom into a beautiful network of human thought. 1. What happens mat...
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Open chapterOrthography
Besides the IPA symbols used throughout this grammar, Blaken can be written in several orthographic systems. The current text corpus primarily uses IPA-heavy or MonoBlaken-like...
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Open chapterPhonology
The vowel inventory cosists of the following eight phonemes: While front vowels are open, back and central vowels tend to be rounded. However, for the following vowels, the foll...
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Open chapterMorphology
A fundamental property of **Blaken** is the one-to-one correspondence between **syllable and morpheme**. Each syllable constitutes a complete, meaningful, and irreducible morphe...
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Open chapterEvent Nominals
Event nominals are how Blaken expresses what other languages do with subordinate clauses. Turn verbs into **events**, not actions controlled by agents. → _driving is possible (f...
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Open chapterVerbs
Verbs in Blaken do not encode time directly. Instead, they encode whether a concept (morpheme) manifests as an event, and how that event unfolds (aspect). Temporal interpretatio...
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Open chapterAdjectives
In Blaken, “adjectives” are not a primitive lexical class. They are derived states or relations built by attaching an adjectivizer to any root. The adjectivizer determines wheth...
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Open chapterAlignment
Blaken uses a fluid-S active-stative alignment system in which subjects and agents are identified through noun-phrase-level markers that encode internal states of control. The m...
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Open chapterSyntax
We inherit from our actions, and we are bound to our actions. For that reason, the verb is typically placed first. Blaken therefore tends toward VSO order. Verb stacking is avoi...
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Open chapterPragmatics
The present chapter documents pragmatic tendencies that are actually visible in the current text corpus. Because that corpus is still relatively small, the observations below sh...
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