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| ==== Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice ==== | ==== Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice ==== | ||
| - | To do | + | We should consider the issues of inchoative (becoming) versus causative (making) verbs, and very similarly, the middle voice. If you know Esperanto, this corresponds to //igxi// and //igi//. The big question is: do we copy (mostly) the natlangs and just use the same verb-forms, or do we make the distinction? |
| + | I think it's dodgy to use adjectives directly as verbs. The provisional causative suffix is **-en**, so an example causative-verb phrase is: //ik trokken de plat// (I'm drying the plate). For the inchoative version, we can either simply write //de plat trokken//, or use an inchoative suffix, or even the verb " | ||
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| + | (middle voice to do) | ||
| ==== Additional remarks ==== | ==== Additional remarks ==== | ||
| * mostly it is proposed to make all verbs regular, except for the one for //to be// | * mostly it is proposed to make all verbs regular, except for the one for //to be// | ||
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