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Polysynthetic language

In 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). They are very highly inflected languages. Polysynthetic languages typically have long…

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Polysynthetic language

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Polysynthetic language

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related to Edward Sapir's morphological types · 8
Polysynthetic language → American, Americanist, Americas, Edward Sapir, He, In Sapir's, Language, Leonard Bloomfield
related to Meaning · 6
Polysynthetic language → English, Greek, In, Indo-European, The, Words
related to Examples · 3
Polysynthetic language → An, Chukchi, Russia
related to Generative approaches · 2
Polysynthetic language → Noam Chomsky's, The
related to Johanna Mattissen's affixal and compositional subtypes · 2
Polysynthetic language → Johanna Mattissen, She
is a · 1
Polysynthetic language → language that has

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Polysynthetic languageis alanguage that has0.90text
Otomiinstance ofbut he did qualify the statement by mentioning that certain languages0.80text
the Tupi-Guarani languages had been claimed to be basically analytic.Dinstance ofbut he did qualify the statement by mentioning that certain languages0.80text
the Iroquois had grammatical rulesinstance ofthat languages0.80text
verbs just like European languages.Edward Sapir's morphological typesEdward Sapir reacted to the prevailing view in Americanist linguistics which considered the languages of the Americas to belong to a single basic polysynthetic typeinstance ofthat languages0.80text
arguing instead that American indigenous languages were highly diverseinstance ofthat languages0.80text
encompassed all known morphological typesinstance ofthat languages0.80text
the Tupi-Guarani languages had been claimed to be basically analyticinstance ofbut he did qualify the statement by mentioning that certain languages0.80text
verbs just like European languagesinstance ofthat languages0.80text
adjectivesinstance ofare those that use only non-root bound morphemes to express concepts that in less synthetic languages are expressed by separate words0.80text
adverbsinstance ofare those that use only non-root bound morphemes to express concepts that in less synthetic languages are expressed by separate words0.80text
Polysynthetic languagerelated to Edward Sapir's morphological typesEdward Sapir0.60section

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