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

From:Sam Bryant <sam_bryant@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 3:20
> >(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).
Isn't vowel length a supersegmental too? Latin at least makes this change: /agricola/ farmer, nom /agricola:/ farmer, ablative. ever green sam