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Conlangery #39: Noun Incorporation

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Incorporation of Nouns

Noun incorporation is always special. There is no language in which you have an incorporated noun statement that does not have an equivalent that does not use the incorporation available. Location and instrument are especially common so that you could say something like I market go. It's possible to have other kinds of intransitive verbs be or take noun and corporation. In English it is possible to have an intransitive verb incorporate the subject. This is very rare but again mohawk my favorite example of wonderful incorporation madness.

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