38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
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Polysynthetic Languages
The term poly synthetic languages has been around since the 1830s. There's a huge debate about whether or not you can define this in a testable way. You can always find something that there's a language that somebody considers to be polysynthetic, but it doesn't fit your definition. Maybe there's a reason why we have an intuition that these languages are special. Let's dig into that. But I don't think that there's any way that we can principally and predictably talk about certain things.
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