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Conlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of Tense

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The Purlative Applicative

An applicative is an operation that changes the number of arguments of a verb. The purlative means it has the idea of going through or along. This is instead of using prepositional phrases, you whack something onto the verb and you add a new argument to the argument structure of that verb.

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