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Conlangery #117: Kash

Conlangery Podcast

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The Paranoid Passive in Vietnamese

There are some that definitely look transitive, but he also has a note that these seldom have ever mean make or force someone to do something. Causative and echoative seem to be restricted to intransitive. And then for fun, he's got things that we would think of as adverbs or, um, mood, are indicated with auxiliary. There's lots of stuff, uh, lots of detail we're not going to go into. Lot of thinking went into relative clauses and how those work.

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