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Re: What have I done???!!!!

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Sunday, May 27, 2001, 19:33
* Nik Taylor said on 2001-05-21 00:37:22 +0200
> Dan Jones wrote: > > In total, a single Aredos verb can have 570 different forms! > > Uatakassí verbs have approximately 8064 non-imperative forms. I'm > still working out the details of imperatives, so I'm not sure exactly > how many imperative forms there would be.
I don't know the verbs in târuven well enough yet but when it comes to nouns, I have you beat... almost 60 *million*[1] possible forms! This is the absolute maximum of course, quite a few combinations wouldn't be used due to semantic considerations.
> Of course, Uatakassí is agglutinative. :-)
As is târuven :) [1] 59136000 to be exact t.

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