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Conlangery #38: Derivational Morphology

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Derivational Elements in Greek

Dystopia was written in Latin in 1516. So I think that the dystopia came much later. And we don't need to get obsessed with this, but the point is your elements can be reanalyzed by speakers. In Wakashian languages of the Pacific Northwest, like Makka, for example, the stem first syllable has like a dozen possibilities for vowel, ablaut, and reduplication. What's most interesting to me about those is that particular affixes can pile up and your suffix at the end can still cause a trigger at the root way at the end of the word.

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