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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 13:49
At 02:39 PM 9/24/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Yep, inuit is definately polysynthetic and I'm pretty sure it has case >markers on the nouns. Also, I think its ergative... why are so many >polysynthetic languages ergative? I wonder if there's a reason or if my >perception is just wrong.
I certainly *hope* there's not a reason. I simply don't feel up to doing an ergative language. It's too much to try to adjust my mind to all at once. Isidora