Re: Group Conlang: affix morphology
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 13, 1998, 6:11 |
Tom Wier wrote:
> I am not so sure that B is any more or less naturalistic. I may be wrong on
> this, but I believe Swahili employs case prefixes for the most part (I know it
> uses prefixed noun classes).
I don't think so, I think it uses prepositions. But even if it does,
it's still true that case-prefixes are *much* rarer than case-affixes.
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