Ben Matasar

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Endangered languages and linguistic best practices

This is so interesting that it’s worth unpacking for those who won’t have time to listen. Among the sixteen suffixes for verbs, there are three that convey the source of evidence:

I heard that Dan went fishing.

I saw Dan go fishing.

I deduce, from the available evidence, that Dan went fishing.

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