Re: What're "agglutinating" and "isolating"? (was Re: Speedtalk attempts)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 3:32 |
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Sam Bryant wrote:
> Isn't vowel length a supersegmental too? Latin at least makes this change:
> /agricola/ farmer, nom
> /agricola:/ farmer, ablative.
But in Latin, the -a and -a: were seperate endings, so length wasn't
"added" to anything. At least synchronically. Historically, I think,
the -a was part of the stem.
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