Morphological Typology Flashcards
Morphological typology
Classification of languages according to common morphological structures
Synthetic language
Language that expresses syntactic relations with inflectional morphemes instead of word order
Analytic language
Language that expresses syntactic relations by word order instead of inflectional morphemes being added to words
Agglutination language
Type of synthetic language which has words with several morphemes that attach to root morpheme and each one has distinct meaning
Fusional language
Languages which morphemes have more than one meaning fused in single suffix
Analytical language
Info expressed through word order and particles instead of inflectional morphemes
**verb for stays same regardless of subject **
Mixed typological systems
Languages (like English) that use mixed systems . Some synthetic some analytical (English)
Coining (neologism)
Recently created words
