Questions tagged [morphological-typology]
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How to distinguish a polysynthetic language from other languages? When is something a word?
For example, the probably most quoted sentence in a polysynthetic langauge (from Yupik):
tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq:
tuntu- ssur- qatar- ni- ksaite- ngqiggte- uq
reindeer- hunt- FUT- ...
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What are the alternate morphological typologies to isolating, agglutinative, fusional, polysyntehtic, etc.?
The above typology seems to also be called "Humboldt-Schleicherian".
While reading this answer in the question "Is there really a difference between agglutinative and non-agglutinative languages when ...
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Are there languages in which adverbs inflect?
Are there any languages in which adverbs (in the sense of verb modifiers) inflect to match the verb they modify?
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Citations for morpheme/word counts?
(Edited to provide context and clarify what I'm interested in)
Context: I am reading a paper that involves comparing German, Dutch, and English. German is the outlier for the phenomena and measures ...
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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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