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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, September 20, 2003, 21:37
Ray Brown scripsit:

> >John Cowan wrote: > >>Oh really? Which five morphemes merged to make Latin -o: represent > >>1sg pres indic act? Even if you want to say that the last three are > >>zero. > > Hang on!
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> The only morphemes fused are two: first person + singular
That was what I meant by saying that the last three categories (tense, mood, voice) were represented by zero in this case. But I was mostly speaking in the ironic mood. :-)
> Several years ago I wrote a Prolog program to parse Latin verbs,
I'd love to see this. Can you release it? -- "[T]he Unicode Standard does not encode John Cowan idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private http://www.ccil.org/~cowan use characters, nor does it encode logos http://www.reutershealth.com or graphics." jcowan@reutershealth.com

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