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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