Questions tagged [agglutination]
A morphological derivation process whereby complex words are formed by the stringing together of morphemes.
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Are noun class markers always fusional? Do any languages have a morpheme dedicated only to noun class?
I am under the impression that noun class/gender is always indicated by a fusional morpheme which has some other purpose as well (e.g. gender/case suffixes in IE languages and gender/number prefixes ...
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Do Turkish sentences have to ever "fall back" to using extra words instead of using suffixes?
I just was thinking about how you might run into problems (in a language like English), where using affixes break down because they are too simplistic (they are used for the common/simple case ...
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How do speakers of languages which can form arbitrary long words deal with long words? [closed]
Looking at this long word list and coming from this conlang question, I am wondering how languages which allow for arbitrarily long words (I don't know for sure, but agglutinative languages, or German,...
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What should go into a dictionary in heavily agglutinative languages?
I would like to build a clean "dictionary" (or some sort of "base word form" collection) for various languages. I am used to English, or even Chinese, because it is analytic and ...
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Are the hebrew prefix letters (משה וכלב) considered a form of agglutination?
An example of this letters can be seen in the word וכשלהתמרמרויותינו
where the וכש at start mean "and during to" (the entire word means "and during to our grumblings).
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How agglutinative languages affect comprehension
I am just learning about agglutinative languages so I don't have much experience with them. I am looking at longest words for example words in a language like Finnish, but not sure yet if those would ...
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What prevents certain grammatical forms to be analysed as one word?
When analysing a language, when do we analyse certain morphemes as one word as opposed to multiple, or is this arbitrary?
For instance, I could make the claim that (in certain cases) 'a/an' is a ...
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Are there right-branching agglutinative languages?
The major agglutinative languages like Turkish and Japanese are also notable for being almost strictly left-branching, much more so than, say, English is right-branching.
Is it a coincidence, or is ...
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Why do PIE verbs have suffixes -m-, -s-, -t-, while personal pronouns have m-, t-, s-?
Usually it is assumed that in PIE the verb forms for the singular first, second, and third person are respectively -m-, -s-, -t- (cfr. Latin).
The personal pronouns, instead, have the second and ...
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Does the classification of languages "agglutinating" concern itself with inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, or both?
I had always thought that the terms "agglutinative" and "agglutination" referred to the typology of the inflection in a language.
But on another question here there seem to be a number of comments ...
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Does the term "(highly) agglutinating language" refer to inflectional endings, word-formation processes, or both?
I had always thought agglutinative languages were inflected languages where the inflections to a greater degree are built up by multiple affixes, each having an atomic effect. (Unlike the -s on ...
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Is there any agglutinative Indo-European language?
It seems like Indo-European languages are always stuck between throwing away complicated fusional grammar (like English) or retaining most of it (like Russian). Are there any Indo-European languages ...
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What is the maximum number of forms a (modern) Japanese verb can take?
Recently I've begun to wonder how many possible forms can be made from a single Japanese verb.
I asked a similar question first on the Japanese Language & Usage site, where I received some ...
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Agglutination in Proto-Indo-European
Based on numerous sources, it seems clear that Proto-Indo-European was
Productively agglutinative with non-root morphemes (and perhaps some specific roots that are also able to act like bound ...
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What are some examples of well-known agglutinatve languages moving toward inflecting morphology?
We've had questions about inflected languages moving towards analytic morphology and about isolating languages moving to agglutinating morphology but we haven't yet investigated the third case.
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