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

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> But to return to the question at hand - how to analyze Esperanto?  Most
> of the affixes are single morphemes with a single meaning, hence
> agglutinative.
Perhaps we could say-- since it was rather clearly modeled on _inflecting_
European langs., it is inflecting, but simplified with agglutinative
tendencies. (That describes Kash as well, I guess.) Certainly not
agglutinating to the extent that Finnish is.

Or agglutinating but complicated with inflectional tendencies.  (Quote from
Gaddis' "The Recognitions" which I'm currently re-reading*: "I think he's a
latent heterosexual.")
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*With some disappointment.  What a turgid slog. What a bunch of dislikeable
characters. But there is a neat web-site that gives chapter & verse for the
many many allusions.