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Article #2187Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finnis tribe?
From: Matti Linnanvuori
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 23:59
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 23:59
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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?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!sauna.cs.hut.fi!batgirl.cs.hut.fi!linnan 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1iig56INNcko@sauna.cs.hut.fi> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: batgirl.cs.hut.fi