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Re: Can't stop agglunating, HELP!

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 20:28
Paul Bennett wrote:

> It's supposed to be believably Indo-European, and if > possible relatively old.
> I can't stop adding (fairly regular and "almost" free-order) > agglunative suffixes to the grammar.
> For the phrase "Get your hands off me!" (my usual practice phrase > when congrammaring Wenetaic) I now have the word: > > "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? 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?