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Latest revision as of 06:16, 25 December 2005
Massive Light-Verbage
jonw: is the word camel + accusative case, and then 5 light verbs
strung together, the last one "conjugated"
abraver: ?!
abraver: FIVE light verbs?
abraver: camel eat walk sit stand run do
abraver: =
abraver: "i'm hungry"
jonw: wow, that's a good guess
abraver: for serious?
jonw: camel-ACC eat-PastPART put-PresPART almost_do-PastPART come-PresPART lie-e.g.,1st.sg
Kazakh Applied to English
abraver: jonw do_homework eat_cookie bribe pretend trick_into_doing sit abraver: that means "homework cookie"
