AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
What's the Relationship Between the Verb and the Verb?
The five or six level system is a simplification of the actual system as used by older people, but it is decaying as the language becomes less used. Another place where word order might come into play is in Sessotho - a language in Africa in di-transitive verbs like give. The higher animacy object must always come immediately after the verb. This sort of thing makes sense and then it becomes grammaticalized. It's all things that you can pull into your own language because of... And develop the... Yeah.