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- From: linnan@batgirl.cs.hut.fi (Matti Linnanvuori)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe?
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:59:34 GMT
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
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- References: <1992Dec30.211917.2524@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan4.071434.27930@jyu.fi> <1993Jan4.205115.8521@leland.Stanford.EDU> <Jan.4.16.54.01.1993.22727@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan6.193601.9179@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In <1993Jan6.193601.9179@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
- >The next most primitive language is Turkish. It is agglutinating. Obviously,
- >it must have grown from an isolating language, since those are most primitive,
- >by the process of concatenating isolated words into units which
- express greater
- >concepts. It shows more development in the inventory of sounds, as well.
-
- The Baltic Finnish languages don't just concatenate words. The word
- roots change differently in different cases. In Estonian, the
- genitive ending -n has worn out completely. The genitive is expressed
- by a root change relative to the lexical (nominative) root, if by
- anything.
- Is it still right to say that these languages (Estonian in special)
- are agglunative and not inflecting? Where is the boundary?
-
-