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Re: relative tense and beyond!

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 2:24
dunn patrick w wrote:
> Well, now, that's the pleasure of an agglutinating language. Of course, > there will probably be a fairly rigid set order in which morphemes must > come, probably ripped off unabashedly from Cherokee.
I'm not completely sure, but I think that agglutinative languages tend to be pretty rigid about the order morphemes can occur. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor