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

Staving Doug Dee:
>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.
Khangaþyagon also violates this universal- the plural marker is always the
last morpheme in the noun, when present. Never violate a universal unless
it seems like a good idea at the time.

Pete