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Conlangery SHORTS #03: Expanding your Lexemes

Conlangery Podcast

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What's He Doing Plus a Participle Phrase?

The default meaning of tikka is where, but all sorts of other senses are produced by combining that question word with other light verbs. Think about words as being different from just contiguous lexical phonological unities. We have a big complicated structure or a construction to mark what most of us, especially if we're not thinking deeply about some of these questions and inventing any language.

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