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Are there any languages that are more analytic than English other than Afrikaans in the Indo-European family?
Are there any languages that are more analytic than (or as analytic as) English other than Afrikaans in the Indo-European family?
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How do isolating VSO languages differentiate the subject and object?
In some Austronesian languages, which typically lack inflection, subjects appear structurally identical to their objects. What constructs do Verb-Subject-Object languages use to distinguish the two?
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Are there purely isolating/analytic languages with grammatical gender?
It seems that all the things which reflect grammatical gender in languages have to do with inflectional (presumably also agglutinative) morphology, such as agreement.
But is that just coincidence, it ...
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Are any of the isolating languages of East Asia showing signs of gaining inflections?
It's generally accepted that languages go through a cycle of changes to their morphological type.
English is losing its inflectional endings and becoming more isolating/analytic.
But what about the ...
