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Conlangery #98: Menya (natlang)

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Converbs - What's the Difference?

Multiple converb, not converb, multiple medial verbs which encode your switch reference stuff. Negation is usually a compound. So what you do is you add the negative prefix. And then the whole phrase is nominalized and then you use a form of to do or to be. With any extra marking that's necessary because your verb has just been turned into a noun. The syntax section, I mean, we talk about the morphology of these and then there's an entire separate section of the document explaining how these things interact. It's really interesting and rich and you can learn a lot by reading this.

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