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Conlangery #39: Noun Incorporation

Conlangery Podcast

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How Do I Use Pronouns Incorporated?

Some things that happen in grammar don't make sense unless you think about discourse. Half the time in my opinion passives and anti-passives make no sense outside of a discourse context. The normal word for animal may be different when it's incorporated than when it's not incorporate. You might have one word for animal when it's floating around on its own and a completely different item bearing no historical relationship at all to the outside world for animal once it gets shoved into the verb. So I have all kinds of all four kinds of noun incorporation in my language cocksi.

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