Re: Theory about the evolution of languages

Well, I said such a language wouldn't need an Imperative. Let's imagine a
language that has a vocative unsing the ending ne.It also has these words:
ti=dog and tef=fetch. So, we could make the following sentence: "Tine
tef!". "Fetch, dog." If we only had a nominative ( ending fe) the dog
would suddenly be in the third person (let's say, for convenience, that
the verb isn't conjugated) "Tife tef." The dog fetches. Here, we would
need an imperative , let's say the suffix sa is added to the verb: "Tife
tefsa!" Fetch, dog. You see what I mean?

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