First Conlang...? (Was Re: some insane West Greenlandicsentences)

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Is there a term for languages where you have essentially one-to-one
> correspondence between morphemes and grammatical categories, but forgoes
> agglutinating accretion of suffixes in favour of mutations and infixes?
Well, infixes would still be agglutinating, I believe.  I don't know
what you'd call it if it used mutations.  I'd probably just call it a
kind of agglutinating, just with the morpheme being an abstraction like
"plus voicing" or "lenition" and the like, rather than a phonetic entity
like /ta/.

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