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apply to (i) nouns and verbs sharing a stem, like
make
in English, or (ii) nouns
and verbs sharing a stem and morphological alternations, like
make/make+s
in English, or it may mean (iii) that the native speakers of Cayuga do not dis-
tinguish between objects and relations. Position (iii) corresponds to the radical
linguistic relativism of Whorf (1964).
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The DBS system for English treats the concept
make
as a core value which may be embedded into
the proplet shell of a noun or a verb (6.6.5 - 6.6.6 for related examples).
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