Re: affixes
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 17, 2005, 17:43 |
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Hallo!
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:50:27 +0000,
Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> wrote:
> Ithkiul sounds like it's *thinks* there a word for a language with a
> very small number of actual roots and a lot of derivation and
> compounding. Some people argue Nahuatl is that way... but I forget the
> term now. So basically I don't know what I want to say.
The word you are looking for is "oligosynthetic". And the claim that
Nahuatl is oligosynthetic is utterly false.
Greetings,
Jörg.