Ed, I'm not really arguing against the agglutinative nature of
Etruscan. I guess I just wonder whether languages can so neatly
fit into this artificial agglutination-versus-inflection
distinction. There's a fine, barely perceptible line between
the two. The accusative /-n(i)/, for instance, wasn't a
very free morpheme.
Overall, I think that Etruscan and Lemnian were becoming more
analytic languages, just as English has broken away from its
oppressive Germanic grammar ;)
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