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Associated Motion

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Types of Verb Constructions

Matzase has an interrupted motion series, which basically means go, stop, do, and then continue going. And much, much less often you can have associated motion affixes that do not encode the motion of the subject of the verb, but the direct object. So in a language with associated motion, you might not need a separate verb for bring at all. Same as in serial verb construction languages,. You just have something that needs carry and then you smack on the appropriate motion verb prefix. Although that that brings up the there's another point that comes up here is that sometimes or I guess often these languages have the associated motion, but they can't also express the same thing with

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