Tillmann Rendel wrote:
wren ng thornton wrote:
Indeed. The proliferation of compound words is noteworthy, but it's
not generally considered an agglutinative language. From what (very
little) German I know compounds tend to be restricted to nouns, as
opposed to languages like Turkish,
wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote:
That is, the distinction between agglutinative vs
fusional is typological rather than theoretical.
Though yes, the distinction is most clearly observed by looking at
verbal inflections. And now we're really far off topic :)
No, we aren't. A couple
Kalman Noel wrote:
wren ng thornton schrieb:
Chris Forno (jekor) wrote:
That being said, Esperanto, and even Japanese sentence structure perhaps
is not as different as an agglutinative language like German. I'll need
to study it more to find out.
Actually, Japanese is agglutinative too
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote:
Kalman Noel wrote:
Esperanto, on
the other hand, is usually described as agglutinative.
I'll take your word for it :)
Consider malsanulejestro (the head of a hospital):
mal-san-ul-ej-estr-o
wren ng thornton wrote:
Indeed. The proliferation of compound words is noteworthy, but it's not
generally considered an agglutinative language. From what (very little)
German I know compounds tend to be restricted to nouns, as opposed to
languages like Turkish, Japanese, Korean,...
Yes,
