Re: affixes

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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