Definition of agglutinative in English:
agglutinative
adjective əˈɡluːtɪnətɪvəˈɡlutneɪdɪv
Linguistics (of a language, e.g. Hungarian, Turkish, Korean, and Swahili) tending to express concepts in complex words consisting of many elements, rather than by inflection or by using isolated elements.
Contrasted with analytic and synthetic
Example sentencesExamples
- As Finnish is an agglutinative language, it is not surprising that inflectional difficulties were shown to be the first impairment marker among at-risk children.
- The hallmark of agglutinative languages is multisyllabic words composed of linear sequences of morphemes.
- The fact that Arabic is an agglutinative language with a complex affix structure involving prefixes, infixes and suffixes presents a special case for testing the general assumption of this study.
- The Korean language is agglutinative and usually regarded as a Uro-Altaic language.
- One interesting aspect should be the interaction between task and word types because there are many inflected verbs in the agglutinative Turkish.
Definition of agglutinative in US English:
agglutinative
adjectiveəˈɡlo͞otnādivəˈɡlutneɪdɪv
Linguistics (of a language) forming words predominantly by agglutination, rather than by inflection or by using isolated elements. Examples include Hungarian, Turkish, Korean, and Swahili.
Example sentencesExamples
- As Finnish is an agglutinative language, it is not surprising that inflectional difficulties were shown to be the first impairment marker among at-risk children.
- The fact that Arabic is an agglutinative language with a complex affix structure involving prefixes, infixes and suffixes presents a special case for testing the general assumption of this study.
- One interesting aspect should be the interaction between task and word types because there are many inflected verbs in the agglutinative Turkish.
- The hallmark of agglutinative languages is multisyllabic words composed of linear sequences of morphemes.
- The Korean language is agglutinative and usually regarded as a Uro-Altaic language.