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Conlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case Marking

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How to Focus on a Subject in a VSO Language

If you have gone the route of a VSO language all of those or almost all of those except SVO as an alternate word order for various things and this seems like a prime candidate for focusing on the subject. Which actually simply complicate the matter because all an applicative does is says hey your verb has a new argument which is now not being marked for role. So that actually adds complexity to this. They're not solving a problem they simply add to or might if you go with applicatives they might well forget that thought just derailed but yeah applicatives make it harder. Okay so maybe not go for a applicative unless you want to do that for another reason. So that will be another

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