I'm surprised by your tripartite typology. It seemed clear to me for a long time that isolating and agglutinating languages are the extremes of the spectrum with fusional somewhere in the middle. in other words single line, not a triangle.
The classifiers used in Vietnamese for definitivity such as cái are not prefixes though because they can stand alone. Cf. Cái chết đen = The black death vs. Cái này là gì? = What's this thing?
I'm surprised by your tripartite typology. It seemed clear to me for a long time that isolating and agglutinating languages are the extremes of the spectrum with fusional somewhere in the middle. in other words single line, not a triangle.
Good comment. I will take up this issue in the "Questions-of-the-Month Video" March/2013.
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I can't download this video :(
I need it for my presentation
Good lectures but clips should be numbered.
The classifiers used in Vietnamese for definitivity such as cái are not prefixes though because they can stand alone. Cf. Cái chết đen = The black death vs. Cái này là gì? = What's this thing?