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Conlangery #38: Derivational Morphology

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The Importance of Nominalization in Classical Chinese

The Indo-European infinitive derives from a nominalizer is what you're saying. The same derivational element can do double duty for driving nouns of place and of time. In more morphologically simple languages, nominalization may be more a product of syntax than morphology. There's all sorts of interesting patterns for if you are going to make a more isolating language that you still have tools to nominalize.

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