Re: Branching typologies
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 22:02 |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2001 21:15, you wrote:
>
> > Hm. So is Hungarian, with things like "megverethetnelek" derived
> > from the verb "ver-", "beat", polysynthetic?
>
> What I've always heard was that Hungarian is just very very
> agglutinative.
>
Hm. Possibly I'm not quite catching the distinction, so I'll break that
big word down:
megverethetnelek
meg- : perfective
ver : verb: beat, hit, strike
-et: indicates that the action of the verb is to be done by a third person
-het: indicates that the action is possible, but not necessarily certain
-ne: (with acute onthe 'e'): shows that 1st person is the one likely to
perform the action of the verb
-l : indicates that the object of the verb is second person singular
-ek: 1st person singular present marker
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another example:
kutyainkkal (with our dogs)
kutya : dog
-i- : shows that thereare more than one dog in question
-nk : 1st person plural possessive marker
-val : ('v' assimilates into preceding consonant) comitative or
instrumental
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I guess my problem here is that I've always assumed that
"agglutinative" applies only to substantives and "polysynthetic" to
verbs...am I wrong?
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