Conlangery #11: Nonconfigurationality

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery11.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we talk about nonconfigurationality, that is what languages do with word order when it’s not needed to show semantic roles.  William regales us with tales of Navajo animacy-based word order, Nahuatl shifting its numerals around, and Ancient Greek’s confounding tendency to separate adjectives from their… Read more »