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Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives

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A Simple Relative Clause for a Bird

Coptic has a special kind of conjugation just for relative clauses, and they use that for that subset of their adjective like things that are verb-like. The next possibility is to nominalize an entire phrase. Or you could do what Lakota does, which is to just slam a definite article on an entire predication, predicate phrase. So the cat is big versus the it is big cat.

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