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Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

Conlangery Podcast

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Construction Grammar for Conlangers

The key thing here is like everything is a construction that includes high level state sentence structure down to pluralizing nouns. That's all the same thing. And it's all form and meaning that's different from the generative grammar definitely sort of divorces at the on syntax, they like form and meaning and tries to build all these abstract hierarchical structures.

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