Re: polysynthetic languages

At 09:24 AM 9/24/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Doesn't inuit have case markers on the nouns? I'm pretty sure it does...
I'll see if I can find out.  (Right now, I'm going over that web page on
Georgian.  Thanks for the tip.  Inuit is polysynthetic, isn't it?

Isidora


>>>  > Which leads to my next question...Are there any natural
>>>  > polysynthetic languages that do mark the nouns for case?  It seems
>>>  > to me that it would certainly be *possible* for polysynthesizm and
>>>  > a case system to be found together because there are a number of
>>>  > languages out there that are fond of redundancy and wouldn't mind
>>>  > marking everything twice.  Alternatively, are there any natural
>>>  > languages that fall below the morpheme-to-word ratio needed to be
>>>  > considered polysynthetic, rather than merely synthetic, that both
>>>  > mark the verb for both subject and object agreement and also mark
>>>  > nouns for case?

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