Aha! Incredibly interesting observation.

Whether or not one desires to get a diagnosis, I agree that there is a lot of value in seeing one's 'eccentricities' in a new light, as a kind of bundle deal. AD(H)D brains handle motivation entirely differently than neurotypical ones. Self-understanding can make it easier to exploit that positively

Really sorry to hear this didn't work out in your favour, Elin.

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That would look like the causative morpheme systematically acting upon another paradigm to neutralise distinctions (what people working in a framework like Distributed Morphology call 'impoverishment').

Do you know about which aspectual opposition is the youngest? I feel like that might be informative but may be hard to find out. Are there any pervasive syncretisms elsewhere with causative + aspect marking?

Hi! Ich bin Jordan. Ich promoviere in der Linguistik und forsche zu sprachlicher Variation im modernen bzw. in älteren Stufen des isländischen. Mich interessiert vor allem die Frage, wie Leute eine oftmals unbewusste Wahl zwischen mehreren Optionen treffen, um das "gleiche" auszudrücken.

Sarah Bunin-Benor writes about this in a few articles. Summarising her findings: i) Hebrew school education shifting by the 60s to align with Israeli norms along more zionist sentiment. ii) The more ashkenazi, the more 'proximity to harediness' (prominent in Modern Ortho circles).

I apologise for the slightly argumentative tone. I do really understand your perspective. I think I am just skeptical of a particular dynamic which occurs and makes a homogeneous mass out of mizrahiness, to better set it in opposition to ashkenaziness. (originates in Israel but has made it to US)

I completely understand approaching things from the perspective of pushing back against ashkenormativity. Within ashki communities, though, I am not sure whether e.g. 'shabbat shalom' is really perceived as more sephardic or if it is rather perceived as closer to 'Israeli' (+ more sephardi-adjacent)