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905: 1006: 783:; in fact, the correspondence is nearly one-to-one. Sentences in analytic languages are composed of independent root morphemes. Grammatical relations between words are expressed by separate words where they might otherwise be expressed by affixes, which are present to a minimal degree in such languages. There is little to no morphological change in words: they tend to be uninflected. Grammatical categories are indicated by word order (for example, inversion of verb and subject for interrogative sentences) or by bringing in additional words (for example, a word for "some" or "many" instead of a plural 718: 687: 1311: 760: 106: 25: 66: 1110:). Another feature of polysynthetic languages is commonly expressed as "the ability to form words that are equivalent to whole sentences in other languages". The distinction between synthetic languages and polysynthetic languages is therefore relative: the place of one language largely depends on its relation to other languages displaying similar characteristics on the same scale. 1164: 1281:
While the above scheme of analytic, fusional, and agglutinative languages dominated linguistics for many years—at least since the 1920s—it has fallen out of favor more recently. A common objection has been that most languages display features of all three types, if not in equal measure, some of them
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The concept of discrete morphological categories has been criticized. Some linguists argue that most, if not all, languages are in a permanent state of transition, normally from fusional to analytic to agglutinative to fusional again. Others take issue with the definitions of the categories, arguing
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Agglutinative languages have words containing several morphemes that are always clearly differentiable from one another in that each morpheme represents only one grammatical meaning and the boundaries between those morphemes are easily demarcated; that is, the bound morphemes are affixes, and they
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Synthetic languages form words by affixing a given number of dependent morphemes to a root morpheme. The morphemes may be distinguishable from the root, or they may not. They may be fused with it or among themselves (in that multiple pieces of grammatical information may potentially be packed into
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These categories allow to capture non-traditional distributions of typological traits. For example, high exponence for nouns (e.g., case + number) is typically thought of as a trait of fusional languages. However, it is absent in many traditionally fusional languages like
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one morpheme). Word order is less important for these languages than it is for analytic languages, since individual words express the grammatical relations that would otherwise be indicated by syntax. In addition, there tends to be a high degree of
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Morphemes in fusional languages are not readily distinguishable from the root or among themselves. Several grammatical bits of meaning may be fused into one affix. Morphemes may also be expressed by internal phonological changes in the root (i.e.
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Analytic, fusional, and agglutinative languages can all be found in many regions of the world. However, each category is dominant in some families and regions and essentially nonexistent in others. Analytic languages encompass the
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who borrowed it from chemistry.) These languages have a high morpheme-to-word ratio, a highly regular morphology, and a tendency for verb forms to include morphemes that refer to several arguments besides the subject
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based on the family have ended up being agglutinative morphologically because agglutination is more transparent than fusion and thus furthers various goals of the language creators. This pattern began with
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is sometimes categorized as a fusional language because its complex system of verbal affixes has become condensed and irregular enough that discerning individual morphemes is rarely possible. Some
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would normally be considered markers of agglutination, they are too closely intertwined to the root, yet classifying the language as primarily fusional, as it usually is, is also unsatisfying.
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as oligosynthetic, but most linguists disagree with this classification and instead label them polysynthetic or simply agglutinative. No known languages are widely accepted as oligosynthetic.
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to fusional again. He analogizes this cycle to a clock, placing fusional languages at 12:00, analytic languages at 4:00, and agglutinative languages at 8:00. Dixon suggests that, for example,
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may be individually identified. Agglutinative languages tend to have a high number of morphemes per word, and their morphology is usually highly regular, with a notable exception being
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roughly translates to "Do you have any tobacco for sale?". However, it is a common misconception that polysynthetic morphology is universal among Amerindian languages.
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was at about 3:00 (mostly analytic with some fusional elements), while modern varieties are around 5:00 (leaning instead toward agglutination), and also guesses that
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sees the regular patterns of linguistic change as a cycle. In the unidirectional cycles, older features are replaced by newer items. One example is
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systems of these languages play a strong role in regimenting linguistic continuity according to an analytic, or isolating, morphology (cf.
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Formative exponence – the number of categories expressed in a single marker (e.g., tense + number + gender for verbs in some languages)
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Oligosynthetic languages are ones in which very few morphemes, perhaps only a few hundred, combine as in polysynthetic languages.
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Blank, Detlev (1985). "Internationale Plansprachen. Eine EinfĂĽhrung" [International Planned Languages. An Introduction].
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languages are on the transition from agglutinative to fusional, with the Finno-Ugric family being further along. Dixon cites the
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Many Amerindian languages are polysynthetic; indeed, most of the world's polysynthetic languages are native to North America.
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can be considered as some of the most analytic of all Indo-European languages. However, they are traditionally analyzed as
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There are two subtypes of synthesis, according to whether morphemes are clearly differentiable or not. These subtypes are
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languages are the most typically cited examples of fusional languages. However, others have been described. For example,
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as an example of a language that demonstrates the flaws in the traditional scheme: she argues that while its affixes,
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A clock face has been used as a metaphor for the evolution amongst analytic, agglutinative and fusional states
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Phonological fusion – how intrinsically connected grammatical markers are phonologically to their host words
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is completely analytic, as it contains only a limited set of words with no inflections or compounds.
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per word. Not all analytic languages are isolating; for example, Chinese and English possess many
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A trilingual plaque displaying members of all three major morphological alignments: analytic (
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coming after it in a clause, though it does involve agglutination of roots when forming
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Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the
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structures. The field organizes languages on the basis of how those languages form
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Flexivity – allomorphy and inflectional classes such as possessive classification
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family. Most of the world's languages, however, are agglutinative, including the
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proposed a third category for classifying languages, a category that he labeled
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languages and most families in the Americas, Australia, the Caucasus, and non-
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languages. Agglutinative languages rely primarily on discrete particles (
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languages, ones that are not analytic, are divided into two categories:
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as one that has undergone the entire cycle in three thousand years.
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may have been fusional. On the other hand, he argues that modern
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but present in many traditionally agglutinative languages like
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The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty
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Other linguists have proposed similar concepts. For instance,
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contending that a fully fusional language would be completely
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make the language useful for describing logic – in this case,
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to a higher level by constructing entire sentences, including
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that they conflate several distinct, if related, variables.
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also tend to be agglutinative, although some examples like
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tend to follow the language families they are based on.
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is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see
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Linguistic typology
Morphological
Analytic
Isolating
Synthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Polysynthetic
Oligosynthetic
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Nominative–accusative
Marked nominative

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