fusionaladj.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. vi. 144 ‘Fusional’ and ‘symbolic’ contrast with ‘agglutinative’, which is not on a par with ‘inflective’ at all. What are we to do with the fusional and symbolic languages that do not express relational concepts in the word but leave them to the sentence?

1921 E. Sapir Lang. vi. 148 By a ‘fusional-agglutinative’ language we would understand one that fuses its derivational elements but allows a greater independence to those that indicate relations.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. ix. 333 When the union of radical and nonradical parts [of a word] is so great that a considerable alteration of either or both occurs, we obtain another structural type altogether, namely the fusional one.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 700/2 Fusional languages (the term inflected is also used) are the languages of the classical European tradition, such as Latin or Greek. Here grammatical endings are numerous, but it is not easy to isolate out the separate functions fused in each.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 322 Words in which several grammatical categories are marked by word forms in which it is difficult..to assign each category to a specific and serially identifiable morphemic section are instances of fusional word structure (the term inflecting, or inflectional, is the older and traditional name for the typological class here called fusional..).

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxviii. 451 The involuntary reflexes which depend on vision (fixation, fusional movement, convergence, etc.).