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Questions concerning the study of the forms of words, their internal structure, and how they are formed from one another through processes like inflection, derivation, and compounding.
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What is a realistic *upper bound* on the complexity of nominals that can be incorporated int...
Some languages feature noun incorporation. Here's an example from Lahkota from the Wikipedia article on incorporation. I suspect the difference in meaning is similar to the man chopped the wood vs the …
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Are there any successful conlangs using information density as a design goal?
Answering this question is tricky. As you obtain higher and higher levels of information density, you have to sacrifice some naturalism or some simplicity in order to get there.
Marking the point wher …
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Is it possible to make a declension system that DOESN'T limit what nouns can end in?
Here are some possible solutions to this problem that haven't been listed already.
mark case with tone or another suprasegmental feature
case disfixes
have a large class of indeclinable nouns
achiev …
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Strategies for marking boundaries between potentially discontinuous top-level clauses
What are some strategies for making boundaries between top-level clauses obvious?
I think the most straightforward strategy is some kind of collection of sentence-final particles, but I'm curious abou …
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How much ambiguity for argument roles is possible without sacrificing comprehensibility?
I'm wondering how minimal or ambiguous the morphology/syntax relevant to argument roles in a language can be while still being comprehensible. …