Word info

fusional

Adjective

Meaning

fusional (not comparable)

(linguistics, of a language) Tending to overlay many morphemes in a manner that can be difficult to segment.

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But contrary to Howard, he explained why Ibn al-Haytham did not give the circular figure of the horopter and why, by reasoning experimentally, he was in fact closer to the discovery of Panum's fusional area than that of the Vieth-Müller circle. Source: Internet

Latin and Greek are prototypical inflectional or fusional languages. Source: Internet

The opposite of fusional languages are agglutinative languages which construct words by stringing morphemes together in chains, but with each morpheme as a discrete semantic unit. Source: Internet

The item-and-process and word-and-paradigm approaches usually address fusional languages. Source: Internet

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