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Re: affixes

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Saturday, February 19, 2005, 19:19
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:56:13 EST, >Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/17/2005 12:44:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, > > joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes: > > > > >The word you are looking for is "oligosynthetic". And the claim that > > >Nahuatl is oligosynthetic is utterly false. > > > > Are there any oligosynthetic natural languages? > >It would surprise me if there were. Because that's simply not the >way human languages work. An oligosynthetic language is essentially >a closed-vocabulary system with a very small vocabulary. I'd consider >an oligosynthetic natlang about as unlikely as one with a stack-based >syntax (like Fith), for example - i.e., not likely at all.
I've tried as hard as I could but I'm totally unable to understand how does works a stak-based syntax I've tried to read http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm but it didn't help me May one of you explain it to me or point to me a place where it is clearly explained?

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>