
Conlangery #105: Navajo/Diné (natlang)
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The Navajo Verb, Derivation and Meaning
Navajo uses these figurative meanings all the time. Extensively, pervasively. To such a degree that sometimes very funny things happen. So you can have somewhat underspecified nouns because your verb is going to make very clear what it is you're talking about when you're handling things. Right. That's interesting. Can we talk about also this paper, derivation and meaning in the Navajo verb? It actually talks a lot about these classifiers, but talking about figurative meanings.
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