Re: Can't stop agglunating, HELP!

On 16 Jun 99, at 13:28, Charles wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> > "tatki-sas'e":-moyi-kaha-s!"
> > [Hand(Noun Plural)-YOU.Near.Component-ME.Far.Direction-
> > ABSTRACT.Near.Future-YOU]
>
> Is this really more polysynthetic or "incorporative" than
> agglutinative?
Probably.  I'm completely untrained.  See my other reply to John
Cowan for a bit of a rethink.

> Maybe your branch of IE was displaced
> by some horde or other, forced to migrate over the ice
> to North America, etc. Or did they have ships?
Yikes!  They're currently (in modern times at least) an ethnic
minority existing between the Caucasus and Mid-Turkey.

They have an almost unbroken literary tradition dating back to
documents carved in a derivation of Babylonian Cuneiform, which
has developed into a modern, cursive script.  The script (and
language) have all but disappeared due to the Islamic and Russian
influences of recent times.

America is very intruiging, however...


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Pb