@sarahdoingthing languages use many ways aside from strict verbal morphology to express shades of action meaninghttps://twitter.com/sarahdoingthing/status/671845069255671808 …
@pseudoerasmus (of linguistic decay followed by another feature taking up that function)
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@sarahdoingthing probably any linguistic 'decay' is 'compensated' by something, e.g., loss of case endings -
@sarahdoingthing btw I cannot resist another example regarding the previous perfective vs imperfective in English - 2 more replies
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