Re: Branching typologies
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 18:08 |
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In a message dated 9/28/01 1:54:06 AM, thorinn@DIKU.DK writes:
<< 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). >>
Ah, okay, I see. So my language is polysynthetic and not agglutinative.
Thank you very much. :)
-David
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