LIN231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Affix, Lexeme, Algonquian Languages
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Isolating languages: free morphemes put together to make a sentence, it(cid:495)s rare to have bound morphemes. For each meaning, there(cid:495)s one separate free morpheme. No markings on the head nor on the dependants. In agglutinative languages: a word may contain many affixes but they are identifiable, can be separated with meaning. Each morpheme corresponds to one meaning; there is affixation, but each morpheme can have many meanings can give multiple person and present. Best example of a fusional through one word; an entire sentence looks like a word, an entire sentence is one a one-to-one correspondence to meaning. If they(cid:495)re all written separately then it(cid:495)s isolating. Fusional languages (inflectional languages): are just like agglutinative there is information. This is why english is not an agglutinative, ex. walks s shows it(cid:495)s 3rd language latin: let(cid:495)s assume puell=girl -a =sing. Polysynthetic languages: there are no free morphemes, they(cid:495)re all bound morphemes, lexeme.
