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Conlangery #39: Noun Incorporation

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Classifying Noun Incorporation

type four is classifying noun incorporation. Let's you talk and say repeated things about a discourse topic without having to keep naming it over again or using a pronoun. You have this reduced incorporated noun that just becomes part of your verb. If you've got verbs in your language that do classifying incorporation then it's very likely it's going to have all of the other types to some degree or another. I'm not really talked about how this incorporation happens in terms of just morphology and phonotactics but there are two possibilities. The order of the elements is simply depends on your language is it had final or had initial and that will determine that in the normal way.

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