
Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft
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How to Write a Grammar of an Undocumented Language
Linguists, typologists have used the term strategy to describe different kinds of forms. English uses an inflected copula strategy for predicating property concepts. And I would say for anybody analyzing language or inventing a language, you should think about that function and the forms that it expresses.
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