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English as a pure-positional language?	by Llyr	2004-05-11 20:10:32
Hmm. I always heard the type as "isolational".	by bassplayer	2004-05-11 20:28:12
Meaning that the morphemes are, in general, isolated from each other (unlike Finnish, where some words could be translated into English as whole sentences). What they mean by "pure positional" is the fundamental nature of grammar in an isolating language: the grammatical organization is determined by word order (rather than affixes, as Latin does). Both English and Chinese follow the same basic word order -- Subject-Verb-Object.
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About Finnish	by Alcyone	2004-05-12 00:27:30

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