Re: polysynthetic languages
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2003, 2:55 |
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--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > On a more related note, I notice that there
> > are few polysynthetic
> > conlangs. What's your reason?
>
> Well, Methkaeki is actually polysynthetic, now
> that I think about it,
> since both the subject and object of the verb
> can take the form of affixes.
> Thus, /dZI,dZOn.sIz'kON/ is a single word
> meaning "He gives it to her".
If that's what it takes, Kerno is there as well:
"donddas-el" = to.her.gives.(s/he).it or
das-li-el = gives,(s/he).her.it
The latter sounds terrible, though, and there is
a marked preference for conjugated preverbs.
Padraic.
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