Re: Unilang: the Morphology
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 22, 2001, 0:33 |
Hi!
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > Errrm, think think.... Yes. Inflection is irregular.
>
> That doesn't make sense to me. If, for example, "genitive plural" is
> always, say -kan, how is that irregular? It may not be agglutinative,
> but that doesn't make it irregular.
Yes, alright. It's regular. You need more morpheme, of course.
But if a language had a particle for `genitive plural' being added
with a space and without a change to words, is that inflecting then?
I think not. The distinction isolating/agglutinating/inflecting
mainly concerns the stem change, doesn't it? Is there any language
like that?
**Henrik