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  1. Agglutination

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    Agglutination is a morphological process characteristic of certain languages, whereby words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each expressing a single, distinct grammatical function, such as tense, case, number, or mood. Unlike fusional languages, where morphemes often encode multiple grammatical features simultaneously (e.g., Latin), or [isolating languages](/entries/isola…

  2. Agglutination

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    Syntactic Consequences
    The high information density carried by single words in agglutinative languages often correlates with a comparatively free word order, though a dominant Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) structure-structure) is frequently observed. This tendency is sometimes attributed to the principle of 'Lexical Sovereignty,' where the verb complex, being heavily marked, anchors the sentence structure regardless of the initial placement of the [s…

  3. Breton Language

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    Grammatical Features
    Breton/) is an inflectional language, though it has simplified its nominal system considerably since the Middle Breton period. The standard word order is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), although VOS is attested in conditional clauses and certain literary registers [14].
    Verbal System

  4. Grammatical Case

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    Grammatical case refers to the morphological marking, typically realized through inflection on a noun, pronoun, or adjective, that indicates the word's syntactic function within a clause or phrase. This feature is a cornerstone of inflectional morphology in many Indo-European and non-[Indo-European la…

  5. Grammatical Case

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    Case Inventory in Specific Languages
    The actual inventory of functional cases is highly language-dependent. For instance, the complexity often relates inversely to the rigidity of the language's canonical word order.
    | Language (Example) | Primary Cases Attested | Distinctive Feature |