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Agglutinating Language [Lat. Agglutinare ‘To Glue Together’]

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Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

agglutinating language [Lat. agglutinare ‘to glue together’]

Classification type postulated by von Humboldt (1836) from a morphological point of view for languages that exhibit a tendency toward agglutination in word formation, as, for example, Turkish, Japanese, Finnish. In contrast analytic language ( also isolating language), inflectional language. also language typology

Reference

Von Humboldt, W. 1836. Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaus. Berlin.

(Repr. in W. Von Humboldt, Werke, ed. A.Flitner and K. Gields. Darmstadt, 1963. Vol. 3, 144–367.)

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Agglutinating Language [Lat. Agglutinare ‘To Glue Together’] from Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. ISBN: 0-203-98005-0. Published: 12-03-1998. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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