Re: Agglutinativity Index (was: Re: What's a good isolating language to look at)

John Quijada wrote:

> I'm not understanding something about this synthesis index.  Do
> zero-marked
> morpheme values get counted when determining the index?  For example, all
> finite English verb forms carry semantic values for person, number, tense,
> mood, and voice.
(Snip much) See my msg. #129176 in the Archive, where I asked a similar
question-- and Andreas Johansson's reply-- (though I'm still not sure about
this....:-((( )

ME 05/12/05 > I found a 79 word Kash text*, and began... then realized I
wasn't sure about
> something: _ne_, for ex.-- that's {Sing. - 3d pers. - anim. -Dative} = 4
> morphemes???
AJ It's one morpheme - assuming it's not divisible -, but four "sememes",
asuming
that to be a word. IOW, it would count as 1 morpheme/word for the synethesis
index, but 4 sememes/morpheme for the agglutinativity index (oughtn't that
rather be called a fusionality index, BTW?).