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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice

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The Importance of Applicatives in Verb Structure

First and second person pronouns are much higher on the list than nouns about abstractions. Applicatives are there because you want to keep most important things as core parts of your verb structure. The most common kind of applicative in the world is the benefactive, which you do something for someone.

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