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Conlangery #68: Agglutination

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What's the Order of the Affixes?

Some affixes are added in the so-called logical order, which is that you could actually have a passive followed by a causative. However, it's going to differ language by language on how they will allow those things. For example, if there's just case in plurality, it'll be case plural. But if there's case plurality and possessive, it will be case cases. And then for four cases at the very bottom of the paradigm, the order is actually free. There's no difference between ordering like the plural and the possessive suffix. They can go in either order. People accept either one. So that was just a really wild example that can't be accounted

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