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> 1. Does your language(s) distinguish between active ("X breaks Y"), middle
> ("X breaks (apart)"), and passive ("X is broken (by Y)")?
[These responses are for Jameld (mutant West Germanic conlang)...]
Not entirely:
X brek Y
X brek [int parskes]
but note the distinction between stative and resultative:
X'st breki (stative: X is in a broken state)
X'st brukan ük Y (resultative: X is broken by Y)
> 2. If the answer to #1 was "yes," what method(s) does your language(s) use
> to make some/all of the above distinctions?
Er...
> 3. What method(s) does your language(s) use to distinguish between basic
> nouns and verbs of the same root (i.e. "a hit" vs. "he hits")?
Varies. Here:
an släja (a hit)
e släje (he hits)
In some cases the noun is identical with the verb root, sometimes there is a
«bisétin» of the verb root (final consonants get mutated and vowels may add
doublepoint), sometimes a suffix like -in is used. Whatever feels right.
James
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