English and typology

[HoskhMatriarch]

Oh, I was just thinking about sleep a sleep, fight a fight, die a death, etc. where you take intransitive verbs and they can be transitive if the object is a nominalization of the verb. I don't think those are common, although you can do the same thing in German.

[Prinsessa]

I think it sounds silly so I've made the conscious decision to have such constructions be "bad form" in my conlang, perhaps seen as silly "baby talk".

[HoskhMatriarch]

I think it sounds silly so I've made the conscious decision to have such constructions be "bad form" in my conlang, perhaps seen as silly "baby talk".

Why not just make it not be possible then? I think in a lot of languages it's just not grammatical, like how "motion estimation search range settings" is not a grammatical way of stringing words together in French.