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My new verbless conlang!
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Many people have tried to make a conlang without verbs. All have failed. Except for me! Let me introduce my newest creation Tonicese:

So there's no verbs but there are tense particles used, so for example:

 

Mika ta umen.

1S PST doctor

"I was a doctor."

 

Ok so how do you say something like "I see a doctor"? Easy, you just use the visuative, indicated with a prefix on the tense particle! For "institutionalize" you use the institutionalizitive.

 

Mika inuk-ta umen.

1S VIS-PST doctor

"I saw a doctor."

 

Aka a-ta mika.

3PL INSTITUTNLZ-PST 1S

"They institutionalized me."

 

I talked to some linguists but they wouldn't recognize my genius! Like at least give me a degree or something jeeez. I'm p sure it's DJP's fauls. He hates morphemes and just can't handle the fact that I use them. But he just wants them all for himself I know it. Chomsky's likely in on it too since I'm p sure this disproves UG.

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