Re: just curious.. ;)
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 26, 2001, 8:29 |
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In a message dated 10/25/01 7:22:34 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
<< Don't agglutinative languages go further than that? eg. you can pile a
whole lot more stuff than just inflectional suffixes. (Or am I getting
mixed up with polysynthetic languages?) >>
Yes, you can pile as many suffixes as you want; I just used inflectional.
My understanding was that the difference between polysynthetic and
agglutinative was that in agglutinative language you had no real phonemic
variation, whereas in polysynthetic you could...? Someone suggested
otherwise with "Hungarian", though, where /o/ and /ö/ are definitely separate
phones, are they not?
-David
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