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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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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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