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### Morphological Typology
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L'ewa is a analytic language. Every single word has only one form and particles
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are used to modify the meaning or significance of words. There are only two word
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classes: content and particles.
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#### Alignment
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L'ewa is a nominative-accusative language. Other particles may be introduced in
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the future to help denote the relations that exist in other alignments, but I
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don't need them yet.
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#### Word Classes
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As said before, L'ewa only has two word classes, content (or verbs) and
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particles to modify the significance or relations between content. There is also
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a hard limit of two arguments per verb, which should help avoid the problems
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that Lojban has with its inconsistent usage of the x3, x4 and x5 places.
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As the content words are all technically verbs, there is no real need for a
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copula. The ka/ke/ku series can also help to break out of other things that
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modify "noun-phrases" (when those things exist). There are also no nouns,
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adjectives or adverbs, because analytically combining words completely replaces
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the need for them.
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Nouns and verbs do not inflect for numbers. If numbers are needed they can be
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provided, otherwise the default is to assume "one or more".
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