Re: polysynthetic languages
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2003, 21:37 |
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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!
[snijp]
> 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?
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