Re: proposed conlang database & my classification
| From: | Garrett Jones <alkaline@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 4:34 |
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:53 PM
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Subject: Re: proposed conlang database & my classification
>Isolation: use of separate words to add meaning such as verb tenses.
>Inflection: use of non-modular affixes to add meaning.
>Agglutination: use of modular affixes to add meaning.
>Derivation: making new words from roots or old words.
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thanks for the helpful description. It sounds like i was comparing apples &
oranges there. I have created two seperate categories (in the grammar
section) to compare what should be compared.
-morphology: isolation vs affixation
-morphology: agglutination vs inflection
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