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| Sep 7, 2019 at 9:34 | comment | added | Toby Mak | I disagree with Deutscher as well, but there is no evidence that languages are all moving towards being isolating. Dixon proposed that languages go through a cycle of being fusional, analytic, then agglutinative. Maybe these languages will gain inflection later on? | |
| Sep 22, 2018 at 12:55 | history | answered | fdb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |