LING 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Isolating Language, Fusional Language
26 Oct 2017
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4. 3. 4: the first type of synthetic language: agglutinating languages: agglutination: the morphemes are joined together relatively loosely. That is, it is usually easy to determine where the boundaries between morphemes are. 4. 3. 5: the second: fusional languages: fusional languages: words are formed by adding bound morphemes to stems, just as in agglutinating languages, but in fusional languages, the affixes may not be easy to separate from the stem. It is often hard to tell where one morpheme ends and the next begins; the affixes are characteristically fused with the stem, and there are often alternations to the forms of both the stems and affixes.
