Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out

Ray Brown wrote:
> Agreed - tho rather oddly Esperanto has the plural marker _before_ the
> case marker in the accusative plural (bela-j-n dom0-j-n "beautiful houses"
> ), whereas in all the agglutinative langs I can think of the plural marker
> comes after the case marker (as, indeed, it does in Volapük).
Isn't plural usually closer to the noun than case?  It is in Japanese,
if you analyze -tachi as plural and the clitics as case, as well as
Turkish and Finnish, for example.  In fact, I don't know of any where
the case affix comes closer to the noun than the plural affix.

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