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Conlangery #107: Moten

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The Nature of Verb Conjugation

Every verb has an infinitive indeed, which is based just a verbal known of action and a participle. And they are just added to the auxiliaries. But indeed what's happening is that they can be added in any of the non-cases that are available - so nominative, acquisitive and genitive. So they can be add in any form together with its case and the auxiliary chosen gives us the mood aspect of voice of the verb. It's quite schematic. Some of it makes some kind of natural sense. The rest I expanded away by saying that it probably didn't exist, but those were forms that were added by those prescriptivist people who like

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