Morphological Typology

Question 1

Analytic Languages: Isolating

Answer 1

1 word = 1 root morpheme
No affixes
Higher reliance on syntactic word order
(Chinese)

Question 2

Synthetic Languages: Agglutinating

Answer 2

1 word = 1 morpheme + affixes
Categories expressed by affixes on root morpheme
1 affix CONSISTENTLY expresses 1 grammatical category
(Turkish, Nahuatl)

Question 3

Synthetic Languages: Fusional

Answer 3

1 word = 1 root + inflectional morpheme
Morpheme boundaries difficult to identify
NOT a 1-1 ratio

Question 4

Inflectional morpheme

Answer 4

Encodes several grammatical categories simultaneously

Question 5

Polysynthetic Languages

Answer 5

1 word = 1 sentence
Each word composed of free and bounds morphemes expressing grammatical category
Highly synthetic
(Cree, Inuit)

Question 6

Mixed Type Languages

Answer 6

Exhibits elements of 2 other morphological Types

ENGLISH

Question 7

Templatic Morphology

Answer 7

Typical of Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew)

Question 8

Morphological Implicational Universals

Answer 8

If a language has inflectional affixes (add grammatical meaning), it has derivational affixes (change lexical category)