Re: 'Yemls Morphology
From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 0:57 |
> Glad you brought that up. English can fit into all three categories of
> inflected, agglutinative and isolating. I think a more correct terminology is
> "synthetic" vs. "analytic", and all languages are both in varying amounts.
I see both systems as useful: the former for discussing the diachronic
changes through which languages may, and usually do, go, the latter
for synchronic analysis of the languages as they are today.
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