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Re: First Conlang...? (Was Re: some insane West Greenlandic sentences)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 21:59
Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:


> > I think's it's agglutinating you're thinking of. Actually, most newbie > > conlangs I've seen are ripoffs of European languages. > > Yes; but using agglutinating rather than fusional morphology to express > the Standard Average European grammatical categories. Pretty much > like, well, Esperanto.
Is there a term for languages where you have essentially one-to-one correspondence between morphemes and grammatical categories, but forgoes agglutinating accretion of suffixes in favour of mutations and infixes? Andreas

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