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Agglutinative Languages

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Agglutinative Languages 

languages whose characteristic morphological feature is word formation and word change through agglutination.

Among the agglutinative languages are the Turkic languages; the Finno-Ugric languages; the Tungus-Manchurian, Korean, and Japanese languages; some of the American Indian languages; and a number of African languages. Agglutinative languages are contrasted to flective or flectional languages, although agglutinative languages also exhibit traits of flection (for example, Finnish and Udmurt), while flective languages make some use of agglutination.
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Similarity consists in highly developed prefixation and suffixation but in Zulu both are used in a way typical for agglutinative languages, this certainly holds for noun prefixes.
Derivational relations in English, Czech and Zulu ... by Bosch, S.; Fellbaum, C.; Pala, K. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
A prefix tree representation is probably far more useful for agglutinative languages than for English because of the many inflected forms of the same stem.
Development of a Hungarian medical dictation system by Banhalmi, Andras; Paczolay, Denes; Toth, Laszo; Kocsor, Andras / Informatica
To provide an example, whereas English speakers rarely produce new words they have never used before, so that the words they do use may be very likely stored as wholes in the mental lexicon, speakers of agglutinative languages (such as Turkish, for example) have to construct words anew when producing language.
Lexical-level representation of morphologically complex words: ... by Cieslicka, Anna / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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