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Conlangery #134: Converbs

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Is There a Conversion Form?

Niv has no conjunctions at all, but it does have 20 kinds of confers. They can be quite fussy in my notes, but surprisingly specific. So we've got reference to a paper on Akhvach, which is a Caucasian language. They have this horribly confusing thing called the general convert. But they also have a locketive convert, which is marvelous. This turns a phrase effectively into a kind of noun that can take locketive case marking. That would be fun to write stories with. Yeah.

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