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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Eddy Ohlms <ohlms@...>
Date:Sunday, September 21, 2003, 23:49
> What do you do with subjects? Are you planning to do something radical > to keep them from having lone-standing nominal roots? In Natlangs, > subjects are never/very rarely incorporated; mostly just objects are, I > believe.
Subjects can be incorporated, but you're right, the object is almost always prefered for incorporation.