Dan Sulani wrote:
>
> Causation is such a basic fact of life, that many natlangs
> (most? all?) have a grammatically encoded way to express it.
> Lately it has occurred to me that, while _prevention_ can also
> be very important, I can't think of any natlang that has a
> grammatically marked "preventative". Can anybody think of any?
> Do any of your conlangs have such a thing?
Hmm ... an interesting concept. I also can't think of any examples,
although it seems quite useful. You could have trios of
base/causative/prevantative like "eat/feed/starve" or "die/kill/save"