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Re: Unilang: the Morphology

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, April 21, 2001, 19:58
Pavel wrote:
> >Raymond Brown wrote > > >It seems to me that particles like the Japanese ones I gave above > >and the modern English possessive particle, > >which can attach itself to whole phrases, > >do the job just as well as and are more flexible than case endings, > >In auxlang, the case marking shall be regular, >and therefore the contrast "flexion - agglutinative - isolating" disapears. >Regular case endings are indeed agglutinative sufixes, >and when they are written with space, >they are postpositions, particles and auxiliary words.
Hm, is that strictly true? If I have, for example, a completely regular auxlang were the sg nom takes no ending, the pl nom takes _-s_, the sg acc takes _-n_ and the pl acc takes _-k_, this would mean that the lang is inflective and not agglutinative, wouldn't it? Neither would it be isolating, since atleast _s_ and _k_ can't be words by themselves. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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