Re: Non-Human Features?

 --- Joseph Fatula skrzypszy:

> ??
> An affix for the quality of having been acted upon by X.  For example:
> breaker > brokenness.  Found in Teuthurev.
According to your example, that would be an affix added to the past participle
of a verb, thus creating a substantive with the meaning "the state of having
been ... (for example broken). Well, I don't know any language that does not do
that. In many cases it would sound strange, but always understandable. Polish
allows the speaker to more liberties than for example Dutch, by the way.

Jan

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