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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

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Ainu Verbs and Agreement Morphology

There are no adjectives in Ainu, none at all. There is nothing, no class of words in Ainu that maps to anything adjective like some kind of proclitics. But most adjectives are verbs, basically stateive verbs, intransitive verbs. So everything that I say about verb morphology works for anything that we would consider adjectives. A lot can happen with an Ainu verb except one thing, it doesn't have tense.

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