Re: Unilang: the Morphology

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
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