Re: Branching typologies
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 19:15 |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 9/28/01 1:54:06 AM, thorinn@DIKU.DK writes:
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> << Inuit languages are called polysynthetic, even though the structure is
> quite simple, in the sense that the meaning is built up front to back,
> each suffix modifying the meaning of the stem so far, with a single
> syncretic tense/number/agreement morpheme at the end. (The phonemic
> rules for the joining of morphemes can be quite complex, though). >>
>
Hm. So is Hungarian, with things like "megverethetnelek" derived from the
verb "ver-", "beat", polysynthetic?
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