Re: 5th morphosyntactic category name?

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Can't remember what you call the langs that make no distinctions...
>
> Agent, Patient, Intransitive...
>
> A!=P!=I Tripartite
> A=P!=I Monster Raving Loony
> A!=P=I Ergative
> A=I!=P Accusative
> A=I=P ?
Analytic?

"analytic" is often mentioned as a synonym of "isolating", my usage is,
though, that "isolating" refers to that there are only one (or close to one)
morpheme in each word, while "analytic" refers to a language where
word order plays an important role, which doesn't uses cases.

--
Veoler

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