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Greenberg, J. H. A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO THE MORPHOLOGICAL TYPOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

The historical-genetic method shared features common forms related by sound and meaning Typological comparison the absence or presence of a given feature

The classic 19 th century division of languages isolating agglutinative inflecting

Sapir’s model I. concrete meaning (ie table, eat) II. derivational elements (–er in farmer) III. concrete-relational elements (affect sentence syntax, but have a concrete meaning) IV. abstract meaning All languages use I and IV, but II and III are dispensable.

Sapir’s division of languages a) isolating (based on significant order of elements, John hit Bill marks John as subject, Billas object) b) agglutanitive (like good + ness > goodness) c) fusional (like deep + th > depth) d) symbolic (internal changes such asdrink/drank/drunk).

Greenberg’s approach The first index measures the degree of synthesis based on the number of morphemes per word. The lower limit is obviously 1. 00, and the upper limit while theoretically infinite seems to be practically 3. 00. The second index measures “agglutinavity” by the ratio of agglutinative constructions to morph juncture.

The third index analyzes the type of morphemes related to the number of words: root morphemes, derivational morphemes, and inflectional morphemes The fourth index analyzes the ratio of prefixes and suffixes The fifth index measures the use of word order, inflection, and concord (matching of gender, number, etc) to indicate syntactic relationships.

References Greenberg, J. H. , “A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language, ”International Journal of American Linguistics 26 (1960): 178 -94.

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