Re: Fusional languages
| From: | Harald Stoiber <stoiberh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2003, 12:15 |
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Good morning/noon/evening/night, :-)
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:00:48 -0400, Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
>I just checked Wikipedia for some typology terms. The examples given of
>fusional languages were Latin and German. Latin I am quite familiar with,
>so I understood well enough what was meant by the "tendency to 'squish
>together' many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to decode."
>
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.
Harald :-)
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