Re: Inflections vs. Words [was Re: List of basic roots]
| From: | Brad Coon <bcoon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 0:57 |
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Joe Mondello wrote:
> How many is alot? I'm also interested to see which concepts many conlangers
Good point! Nova has 126 inflectional morphemes but is totally lacking
in some of the more commonly found inflections. Verbs do not, for
example, inflect for person, number, tense or mood. I haven't counted
Sanskrit's inflections but it probably has more. Mine include
judgements of reality, intention, aspect, intensity, and mode. Plus
I inflect a lot of other words for things like visibility, motion,
and so forth.
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