Re: Fusional languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 18:23 |
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Harald Stoiber wrote:
> Wikipedia says:
> "A fusional language is a type of polysynthetic language"
>
> And then:
> "The canonical examples of fusional languages are Latin and German."
>
> Conclusion:
> German is a polysynthetic language.
>
> Should I believe this??? At least I speak German natively and am not
> especially bad at it *g* ... I never noticed the polysynthesis in
> that language. I suspect that Wikipedia means "synthetic language" in
> the context of fusional language. This would make more sense.
Definitely. Fusional languages are *not* a type of polysynthetic
language. Altho polysynthetic languages can, at least in principle, be
fusional, they are generally agglutinating. "Synthetic" is definitely
better.
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