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Conlangery #41: Discourse Particles

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The Longest Chain of Discourse Particles

In highly literary Greek, you may get stacks of multiple particles. It's quite common. Part of the complexity is that many of Greek's discourse particles are inclitic and become glommed onto the previous words. So once you've decided on an order for these particles, particular particle combinations might become sort of lexicalized on their own and take on their own life.

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