Agglutinating languages
Agglutinative language
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Linguistic typology
Morphological
Isolating
Synthetic
Polysynthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Accusative
Ergative
Split ergative
Philippine
Active–stative
Tripartite
Marked nominative
Inverse marking
Syntactic pivot
Theta role
Word order
VO languages
Subject–verb–object
Verb–subject–object
Verb–object–subject
OV languages
Subject–object–verb
Object–subject–verb
Object–verb–subject
V2 word order
Time–manner–place
Place–manner–time v t e An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination: words are formed by joining phonetically unchangeable affix morphemes to the stem. In agglutinative languages, each affix is a bound morpheme for one unit of meaning (such as "diminutive", "past tense", "plural", etc.), instead of morphological modifications with internal changes of the root of the word, or changes in stress or tone. In an agglutinative language stems do not change, affixes do not fuse with other affixes, and affixes do not change form conditioned by other affixes.
The term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1836 to classify languages from a morphological point of view.[1] It is derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together".[2]
Non-agglutinative synthetic languages are fusional languages; morphologically, they combine affixes by "squeezing" them together, drastically changing them in the process, and joining several meanings in a single affix (for example, in the Spanish word comí "I ate", the suffix -í carries the meanings of indicative mood, active voice, past tense, first person singular subject and perfective aspect).
The term agglutinative is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for synthetic. Used in this way, the term embraces both fusional languages and inflected languages.
The agglutinative and fusional languages are two ends of a continuum, with
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Linguistic typology
Morphological
Isolating
Synthetic
Polysynthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Accusative
Ergative
Split ergative
Philippine
Active–stative
Tripartite
Marked nominative
Inverse marking
Syntactic pivot
Theta role
Word order
VO languages
Subject–verb–object
Verb–subject–object
Verb–object–subject
OV languages
Subject–object–verb
Object–subject–verb
Object–verb–subject
V2 word order
Time–manner–place
Place–manner–time v t e An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination: words are formed by joining phonetically unchangeable affix morphemes to the stem. In agglutinative languages, each affix is a bound morpheme for one unit of meaning (such as "diminutive", "past tense", "plural", etc.), instead of morphological modifications with internal changes of the root of the word, or changes in stress or tone. In an agglutinative language stems do not change, affixes do not fuse with other affixes, and affixes do not change form conditioned by other affixes.
The term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1836 to classify languages from a morphological point of view.[1] It is derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together".[2]
Non-agglutinative synthetic languages are fusional languages; morphologically, they combine affixes by "squeezing" them together, drastically changing them in the process, and joining several meanings in a single affix (for example, in the Spanish word comí "I ate", the suffix -í carries the meanings of indicative mood, active voice, past tense, first person singular subject and perfective aspect).
The term agglutinative is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for synthetic. Used in this way, the term embraces both fusional languages and inflected languages.
The agglutinative and fusional languages are two ends of a continuum, with
References: edit] Notes[edit] 1. Jump up ^ Stocking, George W. (1995). The Ethnographer 's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-299-13414-8. 2. Jump up ^ Harper, Douglas. "agglutination". Online Etymology Dictionary. 3. Jump up ^ http://195.178.225.22/CSmsl/msl/Kshanovski.pdf 4. Jump up ^ http://www.academia.edu/695480/Watkins_Law_and_the_Development_of_Agglutinative_Inflections_in_Asia_Minor_Greek 5. Jump up ^ Haspelmath, Martin (2001-01-01). Language Typology and Language Universals / Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien / La typologie des langues et les universaux linguistiques. König, Ekkehard; Oesterreicher, Wulf; Raible, Wolfgang (1st ed.). Halbband. p. 673. ISBN 9783110194036. 6. Jump up ^ http://acebook.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/language-profile-farsi/ 7. Jump up ^ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5597755/Transcription-of-the-Persian-Language-in-Electronic-Format