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Conlangery #41: Discourse Particles

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Using a Suffix in a Call-Language System

This grammar is somebody's dissertation. So it's possible that he may be just pulling from a lot of field linguists and maybe he can put some of its own work. Anyway, so it spends, you know, 30 or 40 pages. These various root changes that are induced by different kinds of suffixes. Strawberry up in the air. Sorry. That's a great example word. I love that you just add an affix that causes that. 44. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that. You have a locative suffix that indicates something isup in the air or standing. Except strawberry, such gigantic words. It just lengthens the first vowel there. Lightens and

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