Re: Unilang: the Morphology

Hi!

Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> >Well, I would not consider it regular if number and case are mixed in
> >one ending.  Yes, it would be inflecting because of this.
>
> So, according to your definition inflextion is irregular by definition?
Errrm, think think....  Yes.  Inflection is irregular.


> >Why not?  Russian has both `s' and `k' as prepositions.  :-) And
> >prepositions are very close to case endings in agglutinating languages
> >(-> Finno-Ugric).
>
> I know of that Russian habit, but I thought they were just WRITTEN by
> themselves. If they're truly independent words, then I assume they're
> actually pronounced as [s@] and [k@], or perhaps [@s] and [@k]?
I think they are pronounced /s/ and /k/.  If the preceding word ends
or the following start with a vowel, you might analyse that they are
pronounced *with* that word, but if not, they are clearly simply the
above phonemes as far as I know.  But my Russian is too bad to
generate sentences.

**Henrik

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