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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. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/ ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor