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Conlangery SHORTS #08: A Pahran grammaticalization idea

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The Inverse Marking System for Pajram

Pajram was an early, early ancestor to pajram probably one of the earliest written forms. The prepositions and pajram agree with the person and number of their object. They also agree with the gender on third person. My idea is to keep that inverse marking system for marking subject and object. That's already polypersonal agreement. But one other thing that pajram has is inflecting prepositions. I'm thinking that in old pajram you will have that one of these prepositions marking an indirect object and then somehow that gets glummed onto the verb. This is crib from Algonquin languages. We'll probably mess with it a

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