
Conlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)
Conlangery Podcast
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How Does a Question Word Work in Mandarin Chinese?
Vietnamese is an option of have who means someone. Have as not demonstrative as a bird. Vietnamese has multiple ways, multiple strategies. A small number of languages have a completely separate set of in-definence. They're like completely different lexical items that aren't obviously related to anything else. And then the last possibility is you use some sort of existential idiom. For the subject of a clause in Mandarin Chinese, somebody you don't use the normal way you say yo-jun which just means there as a person.
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