
Conlangery #125: Grammatical Number
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The Different Types of Verbs
The stems of verbs are often sepleative. There is a completely different stem for singular subjects versus plural subjects and you can even enjoy great fun with a language like navajo which sometimes have singular dual and plural suppleation. You may have a very small number of these in a language or you might have a few dozen um really common semantic or verbs are posture verbsSit stand lie put is common enter go die or be dead kill and maybe a few state of like be big or be smallThese are the most likely to have this sort of sepleation yeah i think just a general role with sepleation is it's usually a small set right it's usually small set so okay moving
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