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polysynthetic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | agglutinative |
Examples of polysynthetic
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In fusional languages and polysynthetic languages, this is often not the case.
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Traditional Tiwi, spoken by people over the age of fifty by 2005, is polysynthetic.
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Not all languages can be easily classified as being completely polysynthetic.
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If these multiple twins are aligned in parallel they are called polysynthetic twins.
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Innu-aimun is a polysynthetic, head-marking language with relatively free word order.
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The American Podiatric Medical Association recommends socks made of a polysynthetic blend.
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For these reasons, Chippewa's basic morphological type is polysynthetic.
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Polysynthetic languages have arisen in many places around the world.
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Traditional Tiwi is a polysynthetic language while Modern Tiwi is isolating, with some inflection.
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- Agglutinative: forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning
- In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed of many morphemes. Whereas isolating languages have a low morpheme-to-word ratio, polysynthetic languages have extremely high morpheme-to-word ratios.
- Said of a language, characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound (i.e., they cannot stand alone as independent words). An example of a polysynthetic language is Ojibwe, where:; Having layers of twin crystals
- [language typology] A reference to a language which has large complex words in which several grammatical categories are fused together. See Incorporation.
- Languages which are not agglutinative are called fusional languages; they combine morphemes by "squeezing" them together, often changing the morphemes drastically in the process.
