Agglutination Process
An Agglutination Process is a morphological process that creates words by combining morphemes without changing their spelling, phonetics nor meaning.
- AKA: Agglutination.
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- See: Agglutinative Language, Morpheme.
References
2017a
- (Wiktionary, 2017) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agglutination Retrieved:2017-5-21.
- Noun
- 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
- 2. Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
- 3. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
- Noun
2017b
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination Retrieved:2017-5-21.
- Agglutination is a process in linguistic morphology derivation in which complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling or phonetics. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. An example of such a language is Turkish, where for example, the word evlerinizden, or "from your houses," consists of the morphemes, ev-ler-iniz-den with the meanings house-plural-your-from.
Agglutinative languages are often contrasted both with languages in which syntactic structure is expressed solely by means of word order and auxiliary words (isolating languages) and with languages in which a single affix typically expresses several syntactic categories and a single category may be expressed by several different affixes (as is the case in inflectional (fusional) languages). However, both fusional and isolating languages may use agglutination in the most-often-used constructs, and use agglutination heavily in certain contexts, such as word derivation. This is the case in English, which has an agglutinated plural marker -(e)s and derived words such as shame·less·ness.
Agglutinative suffixes are often inserted irrespective of syllabic boundaries, for example, by adding a consonant to the syllable coda as in English tie – ties. Agglutinative languages also have large inventories of enclitics, which can be and are separated from the word root by native speakers in daily usage.
Note that the term agglutination is sometimes used more generally to refer to the morphological process of adding suffixes or other morphemes to the base of a word. This is treated in more detail in the section on other uses of the term.
- Agglutination is a process in linguistic morphology derivation in which complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes without changing them in spelling or phonetics. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. An example of such a language is Turkish, where for example, the word evlerinizden, or "from your houses," consists of the morphemes, ev-ler-iniz-den with the meanings house-plural-your-from.
2017c
- (Brittannica Grammar, 2017) ⇒ https://www.britannica.com/topic/agglutination-grammar Retrieved 2017-05-21
- Agglutination, a grammatical process in which words are composed of a sequence of morphemes (meaningful word elements), each of which represents not more than a single grammatical category. This term is traditionally employed in the typological classification of languages. Turkish, Finnish, and Japanese are among the languages that form words by agglutination. The Turkish term ev-ler-den “from the houses” is an example of a word containing a stem and two word elements; the stem is ev- “house,” the element -ler- carries the meaning of plural, and -den indicates “from.” In Wishram, a dialect of Chinook (a North American Indian language), the word ačimluda (“He will give it to you”) is composed of the elements a- “future,” -č- “he,” -i- “him,” -m- “thee,” -1- “to,” -ud- “give,” and -a “future.”
Agglutinating languages contrast with inflecting languages, in which one word element may represent several grammatical categories, and also with isolating languages, in which each word consists of only one word element. Most languages are mixtures of all three types.
- Agglutination, a grammatical process in which words are composed of a sequence of morphemes (meaningful word elements), each of which represents not more than a single grammatical category. This term is traditionally employed in the typological classification of languages. Turkish, Finnish, and Japanese are among the languages that form words by agglutination. The Turkish term ev-ler-den “from the houses” is an example of a word containing a stem and two word elements; the stem is ev- “house,” the element -ler- carries the meaning of plural, and -den indicates “from.” In Wishram, a dialect of Chinook (a North American Indian language), the word ačimluda (“He will give it to you”) is composed of the elements a- “future,” -č- “he,” -i- “him,” -m- “thee,” -1- “to,” -ud- “give,” and -a “future.”
2009A
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=agglutination
- S: (n) agglutination (a clumping of bacteria or red cells when held together by antibodies (agglutinins))
- S: (n) agglutination (the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining)
- S: (n) agglutination, agglutinating activity (the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated)
2009B
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=agglutinative
- S: (adj) agglutinative, polysynthetic (forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning)
- S: (adj) agglutinate, agglutinative (united as if by glue)----