Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto
| From: | Charles <catty@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 13, 1999, 5:43 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> > syntax without any morphology. AFAIK, English and Chinese are furthest
> > out on that limb. Even creoles have some morphology.
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> And Chinese has more (inflectional) morphology than English, yada yada...
Maybe the Lingua Franca had less, in some dialect.
One other thing that Chinese has, is lack of the "separate word"
concept as we (me + unspecified) know it. That could be useful!
Something like but opposite to polysynthesis.