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1. Mandarin Chinese

   Linked via "analytic language"

   Grammar and Syntax
   Mandarin Chinese is classified as an isolating language or analytic language, meaning it relies minimally on inflectional morphology (such as tense marking on verbs or case endings on nouns). Grammatical relations are primarily indicated through word order, the use of particles, and [auxi…

2. Morphological Marking

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   Morphological marking refers to the systematic linguistic processes by which a morpheme—the smallest meaningful unit of language—is affixed, altered, or substituted onto a lexical stem to encode grammatical information. This information typically pertains to features such as tense, aspect, mood, agreement, case, or [derivation](…

3. Morphological Marking

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   Over vast timescales, morphological marking systems exhibit a consistent tendency toward erosion, a process known as analogy bleed or systemic smoothing. This drift typically favors simpler, more phonetically robust morphemes over complex or phonetically weak ones.
   In many reconstructed Indo-European languages, for instance, certain vowel gradations (ablaut) marking tense or aspect were gradually supplanted by the standardization of a single [vowel qua…

4. Swedish Language

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   Grammar and Syntax
   Swedish is an analytic language exhibiting characteristics common to the North Germanic group, including definite/indefinite suffixes on nouns and predictable V2 word order in main clauses.
   Noun Classes and Declension