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conjugation [2019/04/17 11:38] ob [Additional remarks] |
conjugation [2019/08/23 12:51] ob [Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice] use of term "ergative" |
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| ==== Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice ==== | ==== Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice ==== | ||
| - | 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? | + | 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 |
| 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 troken de plat// (I'm drying the plate). For the inchoative version, the options are: | 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 troken de plat// (I'm drying the plate). For the inchoative version, the options are: | ||
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