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Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Use Typology to Break Out of Habits

Things in the same column tend to clump constructionally and in just in their behavior. There are all sorts of interesting patterns between where your relative clauses go and where your adjectives go. And sometimes like when you're reading about typology, you realize that the ways that Western European languages do things sometimes might be a little bit weird.

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