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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Gareth Wilson</b>
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<p>In reply to: <a href="462.html">Language evolution and the icëlani</a> posted by Luca Mangiat</b> on 22:12 7/9/02
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I've never heard of a language with free morpheme order, either. But I
did come up with a language where the fixed position of the morpheme
wasn't "initial" or "final" but rather "towards the verb" or "away from
the verb", so that the morphemes switched positions if the word order
changed.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>That rings a bell, though only softly... I wonder if any natural
languages have something similar (maybe at the syntactic level). </i>
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