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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, September 20, 2003, 4:16
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> I personally consider the difference between isolating on the one hand, > and agglutinating/fusional on the other hand to be more important than > the distinction between agglutinating and fusional. Fusional is just > agglutinating with morphemes merged by sound changes.
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. -- Not to perambulate John Cowan <jcowan@...> the corridors http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. --Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel

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