Re: Unilang: the Morphology

From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
> 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.
I think the idea is that an agglutinative will have not necessarily regular,
but atomic affixes.

That is, you wouldn't have a "genitive plural" -kan  so much as (say)
"genitive" -ka- [which would show up also in other numbers in the genitive]
plus "plural" -n [which would show up in other cases in the plural].

Such an idea as English verbal -s "third person singular simple present"
would be more inflecting than agglutinating.

Er, that's my impression.  I could be wrong.


     *Muke!
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