Re: Too Many Too Little Possible Roots!!!

Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:
> maybe all languages need a certain optimal number of specific
> *concepts* that may be transferred on as differentiated words as
> possible ?
I suspect that that's closer.  English, for example, has seperate words
"die" and "kill" (as do most, if not all, IE languages).  Turkish, on
the other hand, uses a causative prefix (suffix?) on the word for "die"
to make "kill".  Languages with more complex derivational/inflectional
morphology can probably have fewer roots.  But even a certain number of
*concepts* I suspect is a range, tho smaller than the range of roots.
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