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Relational Typology : Language and Linguistics
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Classification of the world’s languages according to ‘fundamental relations,’ i.e. according to how their constituents are encoded into nominative, ergative, and active languages. Plank, F. (ed.) 1985. Relational typology. Berlin and...
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Synthetic Language : Language and Linguistics
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A type of classification postulated by A.W. Schlegel (1818) under morphological aspects for languages that have the tendency to mark the syntactic relations in the sentence through morphological marking at the word stem; it comprises the subclasses...
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Synthetic Language : Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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n. A language characterized by a high frequency of synthetic structures, whether inflecting or agglutinating. Examples include Latin, Arabic, Turkish, Basque and Georgian. See Horne (1966) for discussion. Schlegel...
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A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio. This linguistic classification is largely independent of morpheme-usage classifications (such as fusional, agglutinative, etc.), although there is a common...


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