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Conlangery #54: Reduplication

Conlangery Podcast

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Is It Realist Affirmative?

The most fascinating thing about clitics is that they get repeated constantly on almost any constituent in the sentence. The marker for first person subject, reality, see occurs on every single element of the sentence except the verb at the very end. So it's just wonderful and completely different from anything I've ever encountered before. And these are in clitics. This is in addition to one overt mention of the full pronoun,. In case you missed it all over the place. That's the thing that's encoding the mood.

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