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Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Using Construction Grammar as a Creative Tool

Using better in English as kind of a weird sort of obligation model, like you better talk to him. You had better, which some people still say, and then you better. So that's another thing of how things can move in different directions. I've been thinking about applying this to conlanging too in terms of like I have a conlang that I need to sort of get back to. But yeah, most I think almost all the prepositions in Chinese are from verbs though, aren't they? Yeah.

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