Re: What're "agglutinating" and "isolating"? (was Re: Speedtalk attempts)

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Tom Wier wrote:
> > (I suppose one
> > could have _superfixes_ too, where the morpheme is a tonal change
> > rather than a segmental sound change, but that's more theoretical,
> > and AFAIK, no languages use this).
>
> There's are some, except it's called a "suprafix", for example Chatino:
In the Taishan dialect of Cantonese, pronouns are pluralized by
changing the tone, but I can give no examples.

For more information, see my Linguist List posting "Grammar by
tones" at http://linguist.emich.edu/issues/3/3-374.html#2
or other Linguist List archive sites.

ObConlang: the examples in my original Linguist list query
at http://linguist.emich.edu/issues/3/3-341.html#1 are taken
from -gua!spi, though with English morphemes.

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        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)