Meaning of introflexive | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.

not-comparable

Examples

“Considering the effect segmentation has on this introflexive type⟳ it may be viewed as a special case of the agglutinative type⟳: Every "normal" word (word stem) can be broken down into a (discontinuous) root (normally consisting of three consonants C₁C₂C₃) and a stem-constitutive morpheme: fataha 'to open⟳ (tr.)' must be analyzed as /f...t...h/ 'OPEN⟳' (the root) plus /CaCaCa/, which represnents the basic verbal stem, also called the first (verbal) stem or stem I.”

“The introflexive type⟳ is relatively strongly developed in the Semitic languages; it never serves as a basis for the whole structure⟳ of a language, but is always combined with another, more extensively developed type⟳.”

“The above sections have⟳ shown that there is much more to morphological typology than the traditional scale ranging from isolating to introflexive languages given in (27) can capture⟳.”

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