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Re: some questions

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Monday, January 12, 2004, 20:08
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 01:54 AM, Trebor Jung wrote:

> Etak wrote: >> [snip] >> I'm working on an inflecting language and I've made the case markers for >> nouns as suffixes. Would it look too strange, or break some (unknown to >> me) >> linguistic rule to conjugate verbs by adding prefixes. >> > No, there's no such rule!
Yes, indeed - there _no- such rule that can be broken. All the Bantulangs, e.g. always conjugate their verbs by adding prefixes. Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) =============================================== "A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language." J.G. Hamann, 1760

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