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How native speakers pronounce “causative”

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Now our tenses have become fully morphological, but there's other possibilities for what we can do with the verb. Remember in our proto-language we had those passive and causative constructions? Well the same thing could happen to them. Over time they become attached to the main verb and form into suffixes, giving us a morphological passive and causative.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

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Now our tenses have become fully morphological, but there's other possibilities for what we can do with the verb. Remember in our proto-language we had those passive and causative constructions? Well the same thing could happen to them. Over time they become attached to the main verb and form into suffixes, giving us a morphological passive and causative.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

speak or talk make from English make is speak or talk make from English make is used generally for causative meaning used generally for causative meaning

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