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Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

Conlangery Podcast

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The Problem With Form and Function in Conlanging

Sometimes conlangers get tripped up on the distinction between form and function. So we get people saying things like, love is a verb rather than just an organizing structure for a communicative. And that confuses people who are used to thinking about verbs as some sort of platonic ideal instead of just a particular structure to do something.

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