French futures of the type 'irai' ' shall go' are but the resultants of a coalescence of originally independent words: 'ir' a'i 'to-go I-have,' under the influence of a unifying accent.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.112

From a verb 'to camouflage' we may form the noun 'camouflager' [...] from an adjective 'jazzy' proceeds [...] the noun 'jazziness'. [...] Functionally they are related [...] as is 'goodness' to 'good', but the degree of coalescence between radical element and affix is greater. Radical element and affix [...] cannot be torn apart quite so readily [...]
- Sapir (1921), a pag.130

If our language were crammed full of coalescences of the type of 'depth', but if [...] it used the plural independently of verb concord [...] the personal endings independently of tense [...], and the pronouns independently of case [...], we should hesitate to describe it as inflective.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.130