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Conlangery #26: “Emphasis”

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The Valence Changing Suffix in the Wolof Language

Some clever linguists had a conference years ago in Germany I think. All about things that were very rare typologically. And one of the papers talked about a valence changing suffix in the Wolof language which I just loved. So imagine that there's a suffix which we will pronounce crunk which can go on unaccusative verbs, especially state ofs. When you use this suffix, you get something like orange crunk. What that gives you is a transitive verb that means that the subject possesses something that participates in that quality. We did a poll and it looks like most people are cool with us occasionally featuring gnat blanks, natural languages instead of our featured conlang

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