morpheme tone
meaning
yi
high tone
clothes
yi
rising tone
to suspect
yi
falling then rising tone
chair
yi
falling tone
meaning
Relations between words are expressed by word order, that is why for
isolating languages word order is grammatically significant. Isolating languages
usually have fixed word order. Because of the absence of morphological marking,
grammatical distinctions can only be expressed by word order. Thai has SVO
word order:
A characteristic feature of isolating languages is the inter-paradigmatic
homonymy of the word. The isolating languages have the following features:
1) the brevity of the word;
2) weak discrimination parts of speech;
3) a fixed word order;
4) few complex words;
5) weak synonymy and homonymy in grammar.
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