Re: Agglutinating -> inflecting
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 11:28 |
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At 16:57 23.6.2003 +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
>Has anyone evolved an inflecting conlang from an agglutinating one? If so,
>how did you go about it?
>
>Pete
In Sohlob the combined effects of vowel-affection of the Germanic/Celtic
type and vowel harmony serve to transform the simple /a i u/ vowel system
of and agglutinating morphology of Kedjeb (Old/Proto-Sohlob) into an evil
beast with six vowel phonemes including central/back unrounded sounds and
lots of morphophonemic alteration.
/BP 8^)
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