Conlangery #113: Applicatives
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I Eat Strawberries Use Fork, I Eat Yesterday.
In the Athabaskan languages, prepositions are inflected and then they get slurped in something. You could end up with a sentence like, I eat use fork. If you get that, and pretty soon the use just starts to fuse on there, pretty soon what you've got is an instrumental applicative. Yeah, that could happen in like what, a couple months? Doing about that, but pretty darn fast.
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