Agglutinative

Word AGGLUTINATIVE
Character 13
Hyphenation ag glu ti na tive
Pronunciations /əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Agglutinative"

What do we mean by agglutinative?

A sticky material; an adhesive

Synonyms and Antonyms for Agglutinative

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The word "agglutinative" in example sentences

Human languages fall into four groups: inflecting ones as in Anglo-American, positional as in Chinese, agglutinative as in Old Turkish, polysynthetic (sentence units) as in Eskimo-to which, of course, we now add alien structures as wildly odd and as nearly impossible for the human brain as non-repetitive or emergent Venetian. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1956)

It belongs to the class of languages called agglutinative, common to the Tauranian race; i.e., it consists of words "glued together," without declension of conjugation. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

That's one of their compensations for being agglutinative. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'Scruff' Mackenzie's two years had taught him the not many hundred words of their vocabulary, and he had likewise conquered their deep gutturals, their Japanese idioms, constructions, and honorific and agglutinative particles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

` Scruff 'Mackenzie's two years had taught him the not many hundred words of their vocabulary, and he had likewise conquered their deep gutturals, their Japanese idioms, constructions, and honorific and agglutinative particles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Etruscan is an agglutinative language however and so one sometimes finds more case endings attached to postpositions which are already attached to case endings! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sumerian is agglutinative, which means that phonetically unchanging words and particles are joined together to form phrases. ❋ John Connolly (2010)

Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is probably not an accident that the agglutinative languages all seem to have been instigated by committees, and the crystallization languages by a single person. ❋ Bill Kerr (2007)

Turkish, for the majority of you who don't know the language, is one of the most agglutinative languages on this planet: take simple nouns and verbs and form new words by adding prefixes and suffixes, and then stacking more modifiers on those. ❋ Badger (2006)

It is on the basis of such “agglutinative” representations, exhibiting essentially different characteristics than their constituents, that apperception continues to synthesize ever more representations, a process resulting in their compression ❋ Kim, Alan (2006)

Embrace her bashfully by almeans at my frank incensive and tell her in your semiological agglutinative yez, how Idos be asking after her. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Saami languages, being of the Finno-Ugric family, are agglutinative, creating words by linear concatenation of morphemes. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

I think any agglutinative language isn't exactly hard to learn. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Since the linguists I've read say that none of the typology classifications flexionalal (fusional), agglutinative, isolating (analytical) or polysynthetic fit any language perfectly you probably do have some wiggle room to say that Vietnamese has some non-isolating characteristics. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It serves speakers of agglutinative languages quite well for everyday communication, poetry, etc. ❋ Unknown (1950)

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