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Conlangery #89: Polysynthesis

Conlangery Podcast

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The Order of Adjectives in English

Some of these words are sort of like many sentences or many phrases that are just plumb together into one word somehow. And for these, I guess they have an order that they stick these and they not just randomly shake it up and dished out in this language family. It's not templatic things mostly pile up as they make sense with meaning being compositional piling on left word. Right. Then at the very end you add what we would normally consider inflection of morphology like subject and object marking, although these languages tend to be ergative. So yeah. The words do sort of have like the order I guess is is like part of the derivation in in some of these

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