Re: isolating conlangs
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 25, 2007, 0:16 |
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On Feb 24, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> "Leon Lin" <leon_math@...> wrote:
>> But then you'd have to account for things like
>> "to boldly go" and so on.
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> But "abso" and "lutely" are absofsckinglutely not words in
> educated English. Just because a language has infixation does
> not mean that the point of infixation separates words.
AIUI, a true infix has to stand between two parts of *one* morpheme;
<to-boldy-go> would not involve <boldly> as an infix, since the parts
it separates are two separate morphemes.