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Conlangery #87: Quantifiers and Determiners

Conlangery Podcast

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The Semantic Map of Indefinite Subjects

Some languages permit determiners with proper names. Some do not. There's a lot of interesting things, ways that you can go with this. I think some things we may have already covered in deafness like things about demonstratives and definite articles can be related. And especially if you're doing historical stuff and you want to drive things, I think the sort of relationship between universal quantifiers and the conjunction something that I may actually use in the future.

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