Why is the Phoenician alphabet the origin of so many modern writing systems? I thought this would be a good topic to kick off the blog because it touches on both history and language, and it entails part of a larger h...

ConLing - What is vowel harmony? There come a few times when studying language when you run across something too bizarrely counterintuitive to dream up - to me, vocalic harm...

ConLing - How does ergativity work? Almost regardless of how you go about being interested in language, a basic understanding of morphosyntactic alignment is, in the words of K...

What is head directionality? This is a topic of interest to linguists and conlangers alike. Head directionality is up there with basic word order and morphosyntactic ali...