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A morphological derivation process whereby complex words are formed by the stringing together of morphemes.

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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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Statistic data on average morpheme-to-word ratios

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 ...
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Which prefixing language has the most speakers?

Most if not all national or widely spoken languages with an inflecting or agglutinating typology do all of their inflecting at the end of the word. These are called "suffixing languages". This is ...
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How do agglutinative languages balance suffixes/affixes with separate words?

I spent a lot of time with ChatGPT fielding most of my agglutinative conlang questions to it, where it taught me somewhat (probably) correct stuff about mainly Turkish and Finnish, with a little ...
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