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Conlangery #51: Language History

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The Derivatives, the Adverbial, the Deverbal

The distinction in the applicatives is somewhat sensitive to the argument structure of the verb, so that in transitive verbs of motion are more likely to use the second applicative rather than the first. There's a suffixes for making the agent of patient of not of an instrument matter. So if your room is to hit, you can make that suffix and make it hitable, you know, able to be hit. And then the other one is able to hit, so I just find that kind of interesting and nice in terms of making more words, derivational instead of just quite a new terms. Yeah, actually, this language sketch is not huge compared to some iconal languages even.

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