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Conlangery #20: Ideophones

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The Bizarre Effects of Adjectives in English Grammar

The case system in general is very interesting that he has an agent...agentative stem and an objective stem. There's some cases you can't actually use with an ...an animate. In a language like blackfoot I cannot say the knife cut the bread because an inanimate thing cannot ever be the subject of a transitive verb. He also has active versus native in verbs. Adjectives are... Agree with masculine feminine and...which is fairly Indo-European. That they have their separate dual and plural agreement. It has exclusive and inclusive we.

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