Re: TERMINOLOGY: Re: another new language to check out
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 23:43 |
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In a message dated 7/1/2004 3:53:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes:
>No, it is Volapük that's odd here. Most agglutinating languages
>I have seen have the plural marker between the stem and the case marker,
>e.g. Turkish:
There's a proposed universal "Where morphemes of both number and case are
present and both follow or both precede the noun base, the expression of number
almost always comes between the noun base and the expression of case."
In _Mixed Artificial Languages_, Alan Libert notes 2 other conlangs besides
Volapuk violating this universal: Dil and Bopal.
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