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Conlangery #26: “Emphasis”

Conlangery Podcast

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How to Use Non-Configurationality in Conversation

In some languages, an indefinite noun cannot ever be the subject of a transitive sentence. You have to either use a weird passive or you have to introduce them. In natural discourse, right? Once people start writing, it's weird. So these are all of these things where it is easy for us to come up with sentences like a man held me across the street yesterday. But even in languages that allow it were really, really, really rare,. Like less than one or two percent of the time, are you going to get a sentence like that? Yeah.

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