
Conlangery #134: Converbs
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Converbs - The Mainstay With the Converb?
Converbs are classified as a type of non-finite verb. Their function is to solve certain kinds of problems that in the Western languages most of us are feeling really with uses dependent clauses, conjunctions and maybe participle's. Some people consider part of the simple as a kind of converb. There are three or four hotspots, uh, language hotspots where these things happen a lot. Turkic and Mongolian languages. The Caucasus where they have, they abundance abundantly have them. In the Ethiopian language region, all sorts of completely unrelated languages all have converbs. If we count clause chaining, which we'll get to in a moment, then popular guinea also
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