of most languages can be defined in terms of analytic-synthetic continuum which
At one extreme of this continuum there is so-called analytic languages
whose words have little or no internal structure. At the other extreme stand
synthetic languages which do allow the analysis of their words into smaller parts
or morphs. Analytic languages which are also referred to as isolating languages
generally do not allow the segmentation of their words that is the words of an
analytic language cannot or hardly be split into smaller units. Well-known
examples of analytic languages are Vietnamese and Chinese (see p.).
Synthetic type, by contrast, do allow a segmentation of the words into
morphs. An example from Turkish illustrates this:
Adamlarin
(
men`s)
Dostları ilə paylaş: