History: Morphology

Source of version: 4 (current)

!The four types of languages: *Isolating (''sapyvlakai'') *Inflecting (''vlatikykai'') *Agglutinative (''niprafkai'') *Polysynthetic (''clajvokai'') la lojban. mo bangu .i xu sapivlakai go'i ''.i sapyvlakai joi clajvokai'' What sort of language is Lojban ? (isolating?) ''part isolating, part polysynthetic'' Don't rafsi make it more agglutinative than polysynthetic? !!!Cases *Case (''tersu'i'') **Nominative (''gasnu'') **Accusative (''selri'a'') ***Doesn't this mean "that which is brought into being" (effected) rather than "that which is acted upon" (affected)? --mi'e ((braiyn)) **Genitive (''ponse'') **Dative (''terdu'a'') **Instrumental (''selpli'') **(another use for instrumental in IE) (''selkansa'') **Locative (''selzva'') **Prepositional (=locative in Slavic) (''seltcita'') **Ablative (''tervi'u'') **Vocative (''selta'a'') **Ergative (''zukte'')