Re: polysynthetic languages

-- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
>
> Mostly, restrictions on order.  An isolating language can do things
> like, in English: I will never go there, placing the adverb "never"
> between the future morpheme "will" and the verb "go".  But, a
> polysynthetic or agglutinating language restricts what morphemes can
> go where, saying "Iwillgo never" or "Never Iwillgo".
actually, english does have restrictions on order... most people i know would consider
"never i will go" and "i will go never" to be incorrect. it seems the only two
"correct" orders are "i will never go" and "never will i go"... so does that
make english polysynthetic?

> Also, many agglutinating/polysynthetic languages have allomorphic
> variations such as vowel harmony or assimilation.
hmm... sort of like "will not" and "won't" in english?

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