
Conlangery #118: Linguistics Databases
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How to Code a Verb in Different Languages
This is just dealing with that. How are subjects and objects and various adjuncts and sad. Where did my nominative go? Where did my, where did my subject go? Right. If we look at English, we have a nominative first, then a verb, which might be all additionally coded for the subject. And then the accusative. I see him or he sees me. Uh, I, I don't recall what it was. Or where did mysubject go? Anyway, something like that. So this gives you a list of 39 verb forms of how the argument structure is mattered in different languages.
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