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Conlangery #134: Converbs

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Converting a Convert Clause

In will light, which is a language from the Ethiopian zone does all sorts of very subtle aspectual refinements with convert constructions. Condoms are basically, if you've got converts, your auxiliary constructions are going to use those typically instead of participles or infinitives and so on. And then marvellously it has words that specifically mean spend the night doing something spend the day doing something or spend the season or year doing something.

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