Marino Castrillón Tangarife
6.
SYNTHETIC AND ANALYTICAL LANGUAGES
Synthetical languages are those which use inflectional affixes or bound forms to
express grammatical relationships.
Analytic languages resort to free forms or
independent morphemes to...
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Marino Castrillón Tangarife
6.
SYNTHETIC AND ANALYTICAL LANGUAGES
Synthetical languages are those which use inflectional affixes or bound forms to
express grammatical relationships.
Analytic languages resort to free forms or
independent morphemes to indicate grammatical relations.
Classical Latin, ancient
Greek, Old English and modern Russian are synthetic; most modern languages are
predominantly analytical.
Morphemes may be free or bound.
Free forms are those which have and
independent existence; bound morphemes cannot stand by themselves, and can
function only as parts of a word.
The English term like, as verb, prepositions, or noun is
a free morpheme; the suffix -like, as in manlike is a bound form, and cannot stand alone.
Spanish oso (bear) is a free morpheme, whereas oso in fervoroso (fervent) is a bound
form, Spanish ex- (former, out of) as in ex-alcalde(former mayor) and extraer (to take out)
is a bound form; yet rather recently, speakers started to use ex as a free morph
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