On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:43:26PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Have you ever taken a look at Algonkian languages? They're so
> gratuitously morphological...
Gratuitously morphological? What does that mean? Aren't all languages
morphological? :)
> they're great! Here's a sample from a story we were reading in Meskwaki
> (aka Fox):
[89 blank lines deleted]
What was that? Spoiler space? :)
> e:hpa:hkisetawa:wa:ci
> e:h-[pa:hk-ise-t-aw]-a:-wa:-t-i
> AOR-[open-lay-INAN.OBJ-APP]-DIR-3pl-3-Aor.Conj
> "They laid it open."
Hm. Looks gratuitously agglutinative to me. :)
> (The bracketed bit there is the stem, the internal
> structure of which is derivationally, not inflectionally,
> determined.)
Interesting.
How do you pronounce it?
-Mark