Aug 15, 2024
Early ideas for Imperial Hašnic's symmetrical/Austronesian voice system
AV = agent voice, UV = undergoer voice, IV = indirect voice ; ACT = action verb, PUNC = punctual verb, ACCO = accomplishment verb
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Early ideas for Imperial Hašnic's symmetrical/Austronesian voice system
AV = agent voice, UV = undergoer voice, IV = indirect voice ; ACT = action verb, PUNC = punctual verb, ACCO = accomplishment verb
Sample sentences demonstrating the Hašnic construct form, a sort of nominaliser on the verb that allows the verb to take case suffixes for converb functions, serve as relative clauses, and more; though still syntactically a verb! It cannot be dropped from the sentence like nouns, can still take verbal clitics, and cannot be clefted like nouns or take adjectival or NP modifiers.