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In:Approaches to Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies
Edited by Ilona Koutny and Nicolau A. Dols Salas
[Studies in World Language Problems 12] 2027
► pp. 115–126

Chapter 8
Conlanging in the 19th century

The case of inflectional morphology in Volapük and Esperanto

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Inflectional morphology
  • 3.Inflectional morphology on the noun
  • 4.Inflectional morphology on the verb
  • 5.The irony of inflectional morphology
  • Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
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