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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice

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The Inverse in Algonquin Languages

A passive inversion is like taking the agent out of a sentence. But an inverse, you don't take anything about the sentence. You just switch the places of the agent. Most likely to see these inverses in languages were that have tight requirements on what is allowed to be the head of a relative clause and still say this is actually the same subject.

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