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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. =================================== Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos