Re: Gz^rod|in (Some grammar now : articles)

Adrian Morgan wrote:
> (There are, are there not, languages that often
> construct words one or two sounds at a time?
> Just a rumour I've heard...)
Well, there are languages that are agglutinative, that tend to build up
several inflections on the same word, but they're usually more than
single letters, which is why they also tend to be quite long.  For
instance, they might have ha- for "indefinite", sy for "inanimate" and
"t|" for plural, so _hasyt|_ instead of the monosyllable _hyt|_.  But, I
suppose there could be some that had shortened them sufficiently without
also fusing them (that is, merging them into a single unanalyzable
unit).  However, it's quite rare to have an ending for singular.

Also, two questions, are the long forms formed by adding the extra
things to the end, like _hyt|oc_?  And how do you know when to use -o-
and when to use -iu-?

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