Re: First Conlang...? (Was Re: some insane West Greenlandic sentences)
| From: | Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 9, 2004, 2:03 |
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Andreas Johansson qrote:
> Also, I was of the impression that a _poly_synthetic language
> necessarily tended to pile _many_ affixes into each word. A language
> which only inflects its words for 2-3 categories could hardly be
> described as polysynthetic, could it?
I usually think of a polysynthetic language in the following informal
terms: that in such a language it's common for subject, verb *and*
object to be encoded in the same word. Whereas a merely agglutinating
language generally doesn't go that far. A better definition of the
boundary between aggutinating and polysynthetic would certainly
interest me.
Adrian.