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 agglutinativ
wren ng thornton 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 of days ago
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM, wren ng thornton 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 (un-health-person-place-leader-noun, 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, compo
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, J
