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Where synthetic languages "inflect," what is the verb for what analytic languages do?
Edit 2023-08-26: I think this answer is wrong and is superseded by this one.
As far as I know, there isn't a dedicated word for adding more words to express grammatical meaning.
I propose exflect(ion) …
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Where synthetic languages "inflect," what is the verb for what analytic languages do?
The use of function words to do what might otherwise be achieved via inflection is called periphrasis. The adjectival form is periphrastic (as in periphrastic future tense). I don't think there's a ve …
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