Re: Inflections vs. Words [was Re: List of basic roots]
From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
Date: | Thursday, June 15, 2000, 3:47 |
Joe Mondello wrote:
>How many is alot? I'm also interested to see which concepts many
conlangers
>chosen to make inflections, because I'm renovating my list of inflections
at
>the moment.>
Kash is probably toward the lower end of the scale, compared to most of what
I've seen posted. 4 noun cases (nom., gen., dat., acc.) sg. and pl.; 2
marked verb tenses (past and fut.), subject agreement prefixes, and maybe 7
or 8 derivational prefixes (not always enough). All very agglutinative. But
it works, I think :-))