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Conlangery #39: Noun Incorporation

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The Meaning of a Noun and a Corporation in Chinese

In Chinese there are these special lexical items that are called verb objects. And I was thinking about whether those were noun and corporation based on the type one definition because you have stuff like chirfan is to eat. But um I think you can't yeah you can have verb suffixes come between the verb and the object even though they are sort of lexicalized.

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