A report on Morphological typology
Way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.
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Morphology (linguistics)
0 linksStudy of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.
Study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.
Morphology differs from morphological typology, which is the classification of languages based on their use of words, and lexicology, which is the study of words and how they make up a language's vocabulary.
Polysynthetic language
0 linksIn linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e. languages in which words are composed of many morphemes (word parts that have independent meaning but may or may not be able to stand alone).
Friedrich Schlegel
0 linksGerman poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist.
German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist.
The first to notice what became known as Grimm's law, Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, and morphological typology, publishing in 1819 the first theory linking the Indo-Iranian and German languages under the Aryan group.
Finnish language
0 linksUralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation.
Navajo language
0 linksSouthern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
Navajo is difficult to classify in terms of broad morphological typology: it relies heavily on affixes—mainly prefixes—like agglutinative languages, but these affixes are joined in unpredictable, overlapping ways that make them difficult to segment, a trait of fusional languages.