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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...>
Date:Friday, September 19, 2003, 19:03
Chris Bates writes:
> Eddy Ohlms wrote: > >Because they are verb inflections. You wouldn't say "I am smart er > than you" or "It > >explode ed." > But what I am saying is, if their form is always the same, why is it > any > more correct to analyse them as verb inflections than as separate > words?
I agree with Chris. I don't see a dime's worth of difference between "I am smart er than you" and "I am more smart than you," or between "It explode ed" and It did explode."

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