Re: polysynthetic languages

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> One of the coolest features of Euskara has to be overdeclination. In
> Basque, you can sometimes add a case suffix to a noun *already* declined!
Uatakassi does that too.  :-)  To say something like, say, "of the man
in the house" you'd say:

man-gen house-loc-gen

Or the infamous "Yea, tho I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death"
would be:

valley-perlative shadow-gen-perlative death-gen-gen-perlative

I suspect there'd be a preference to reword the sentence if you'd end up
with ridiculously long strings of case-suffixes.  :-)

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