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Even without English doing something similar, as the video mentions, this is a lot like Indo-European languages insistently marking subject attributes in the verb:
- person - “I go” vs. “he goes” (English)
- number - “parla” vs. “parlano” (Italian; he says vs. they say)
- gender - “mówił” vs. “mówiła” (Polish; he spoke vs. she spoke)
Like, it looks like the inverse phenomenon, but it’s actually the same thing - you’re plopping info from one part of speech into another, because they’re supposed to go together anyway.
oops, I typed in ‘linguistics’ and picked the comm from a drop-down menu
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