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Is Poly Synthetic Syntax a Good Idea?
The languages that get described as poly synthetic, the ethics, it's harder to make a firm distinction between grammar versus meaning derivation. Most of the most of the ones people recognize as being so are not evenly distributed across the globe. They're most common in North and South America, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Siberia. For example, things we think of as adverbs often get encoded into a big giant verb pile up.