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Conlangery #98: Menya (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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I Do Not Baking. Yeah. That's Not That Unusual

Negation is in terms of auxiliary verb constructions, which this language already uses pretty abundantly. Verb serialization happens, but it's pretty restrained compared to some other languages in the area. In terms of syntax, one thing that I thought was really neat is that pretty much any kinds of clause, you don't nominalize verbs per se, you nominalize entire clauses. Very confusingly, this grammar calls it de-verbalization and there are lots of interesting examples of it.

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