Part 4. TYPOLOGY OF LANGUAGES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 640.

· Define:

Typological linguistics.

· Describe:

Syntactic vs. analytic types of languages.

· Define:

Analytic languages.

· Define:

Synthetic languages.

· Define:

Polysynthetic (incorporating) languages.

· Define:

Nominative vs. ergative languages.

· Define:

Root (isolating) languages.

· Define:

Agglutinative languages.

· Define:

Inflectional languages.

· Describe:

Differences between inflectional and agglutinative languages (3 factors).