Re: Unilang: the Morphology
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 22, 2001, 7:11 |
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Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> I say "in theory" because according to what I've read, the whole
> terminology has proven a bit crude
Not "crude", merely that they represent abstractions. "Isolating",
"Fusional/Inflectional", "Agglutinating" were never intended to suggest
completely different systems, but rather convenient classifications of a
continuum.
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