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I wonder whether there is any statistic data on morpheme-to-word ratio of certain languages. Is this something that can be and has been measured? The languages I am most interested in are the agglutinative languages Tamil and Turkish.

Could further an average morpheme-to-word ratio be justifiably called a constant of a given language, at least in a small timeframe?

How about an upper morpheme-to-word boundary? Does this exist as a "linguistic constant"? Are there comparative tables for different languages? Have specimen of words that actually exhaust this maximum capability of synthesis been recorded somewhere?

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  • Some answers here.
    – jlawler
    Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 17:58
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    Possible duplicate of Citations for morpheme/word counts?
    – curiousdannii ♦
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 0:15
  • I do see many more questions here than in the linked q&a-thread and my questions have not been answered there.
    – zwiebel
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 1:15

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