Questions tagged [analytic-languages]
A language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio.
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In languages with "small words", how do they conceptualize of these units?
The languages I am thinking of are Vietnamese and Tibetan, but perhaps there are others. And I know that technically these two are classified on the opposite of the spectrum (analytic vs. ...
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How does Vietnamese handle the equivalent of phrasal/separable verbs from English or Chinese?
I just learned Vietnamese doesn't have phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are like "to beat up", "to wake up", "to shake hands", "to keep going", etc.. In addition to ...
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Is there any solid evidence for the agglutinative->fusional->analytic->agglutinative roundabout?
I've heard it mentioned that languages tend to evolve in a kind of merry-go-round pattern where a language that's agglutinative slowly turns fusional, that fusional language's inflections slowly break ...
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Are there highly analytic (isolating) languages without tone?
I know many highly analytic languages (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai) are tonal languages. Are there similarly analytic or isolating languages that don't use tone the way those languages do? The closest I ...
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Is the difference between analytic and agglutinative languages superficial? [duplicate]
Say you have a theoretical language which has verbs that are never inflected. If that verb appears, it will only appear in one form. Tense and such things are marked with particles that follow the ...
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The difference between isolating and analytic languages?
There seems to really be a very minor difference between analytic and isolating languages. A lot of the time I just don't see isolating used at all but analytic used instead. Generally I also see ...
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are words more independent from syntax in non-analytical languages? Does this affect language processing? [closed]
When we think about the morphology and syntax, the debate arises. Even if they are protagonist parts of linguistic debates, and even if they are usually address separately, the importance of each ...
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How is "Writer/reader-responsible language" correlated with synthetic/analytic languages?
This blog post suggests a rather interesting concept of writer/reader -responsible languages.
Basically, this quote expresses the idea:
English is a writer-responsible language.
That means it is ...
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Agglutinative vs. Analytic. What's the difference?
First of all, I understand that these typological distinctions are not absolute and almost all languages show signs of almost all morphological strategies but most display a certain tendency towards ...
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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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