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A blog about the wonderful diversity of the world's languages, updated biweekly by the members of Lund Language Diversity Forum.

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June 11, 2021 | gerdcarling

I, you, he, she, them and they

by Gerd Carling Pronouns are fun. They are important, too. Think for a second about what language would look like without pronouns. Every time …
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May 28, 2021 | lldf

The endless quest for ultimate ergativity

by Arthur Holmer Ask a speaker of English what the most salient fact about English is, and it is very unlikely that the answer …
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April 16, 2021 | Niklas Erben Johansson

Hiding under the surface

Everyone likes to talk about the origins of words. For linguists, this is a real boon since it gives us the opportunity to endlessly …
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April 2, 2021 | victorbogrensvensson

Word Class Ping-pong

A common morphological process is to add an affix to a lexical root to change its word class. This morphological process is known as …
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March 5, 2021 | Eline Visser

Favourite features of a Papuan language

Eline describes her favourite features from the Kalamang grammar: minimalistic give-constructions and brutal curses.
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