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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">Dear all,</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">In Galela (West Papuan), nouns can be inflected like verbs, as illustrated below:</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">I would like to know if this is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon, and if so, what other languages
show similar patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">From Hong Kong,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">Ian</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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