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What're "agglutinating" and "isolating"? (was

From:Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 20:22
> I'm thinking that there are some noun cases in Serbo-Croatian that differ > only in the tone, but I don't remember the details.
Yes (for example : feminine plural vocative vs. fp accusative : zhe'ne/zhe"ne) and stress often distinguish determined from undetermined adjectives. But may I say that tones are written only in litterature and not necessary to be understood. Thanks god. ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/conlang/?start=16898 -- Free e-mail group hosting at http://www.eGroups.com/