Re: Kalini Sapak - new lang

James Campbell wrote:
> > (Reminds me of seeing an English verb conjugated in a multilingual
> > dictionary online: It listed all the person and tense forms, like "I am
> > melting", "We are melting", "You are melting".... "I have melted"...)
>
> Certainly forms which would be rarely used in polite conversation.
Hee hee.  In Uatakassí, the dictionary form is first person singular
non-punctual present, antipassive for transitive verbs.  Which means you
have forms like _iuínuki_ "I am dying" :-)

(Well, there are a few verbs which can ONLY occur with inanimate
subjects, those use third-person non-sentient, e.g., _náttaki_, "it is
happening")

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