
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
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Buruszewski Is a Verb of Motion and It's a Transitive Uh Causative Visor
Burushaski has a prefix in slot two which is adi and it is used to tweak the transitivity of your verb including producing things that we just talked about today middle-like things. With one stem we've got cold to get cold for a masculine to getcold for feminine and then to cause something to be cool, with another you have an effectively transitive visor or causative visor - can you use d and s together? There's no word for not there's a name so i would be flabbergasted to find out there was any word ever that used all of the slots yeah. "Only eight only eight of the 11" says buruszewski
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