Re: What're "agglutinating" and "isolating"? (was Re: Speedtalk attempts)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 4:30 |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:26:01 -0500, Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
wrote:
> (I suppose one
>could have _superfixes_ too, where the morpheme is a tonal change
>rather than a segmental sound change, but that's more theoretical,
>and AFAIK, no languages use this).
How about:
perMIT vs. PERmit
proDUCE vs. PROduce
Well, these are somewhat odd examples, and it's not productive (you can't
say ADmit or REduce, for instance), but I actually have an example from =
one
of my old languages, Ipsilikhthar. The genitive case of nouns is formed =
by
putting a stress on the final syllable: RELni "a dragon", relNI "of a
dragon".
I'm thinking that there are some noun cases in Serbo-Croatian that differ
only in the tone, but I don't remember the details.