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Conlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case Marking

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How to Shift Focus in Fixed Word Order Languages

Once you've decided on a fixed word order, how do you do those things? And there's a whole, and this is such an important thing. We don't even think about it most of the time. So in the first two examples we've gone through polypersonal agreement and noun incorporation,. You can use word order to do focus, the horrible, horrible e-word emphasis. Once you've decided that clefting is a structure you're going to use, it's extremely likely that question words will become part of the clefting party.

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