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agglutinative

adjective as in sticky

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Such languages could be termed “agglutinative-isolating,” “fusional-isolating” and “symbolic-isolating.”

Agglutinative languages do not often possess special adverbial endings.

Agglutinative action is evidence of the presence in a serum of a somewhat similar set of substances, known as “agglutinins.”

In the agglutinative languages, or at any rate in some of them, some of the post-fixed elements have still an independent value.

But the distinction between them and the so-called agglutinative languages is one of degree rather than of kind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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