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Archive for May 2007

Morphological Systems

Not all languages have inflectional morphology. Some languages have little or no morphology. Still other languages have relatively complex words with distinct parts, each representing a morpheme.
Traditionally these 3 types of languages have been identified as :
Inflectional
Isolating
Agglutinating
Inflectional Morphology
In such languages:

each word tends to be a single isolated morpheme
lack both derivational and inflectional morphology

Chinese is [...]