MORPHOLOGY TYPOLOGHY

Morphology Typology is a way of classfying language based on their morphological

feature which is a useful system to identify the dominating morphological type that is
found in a language. Also in order to corelate the dominate patterns with the presence
or absence of other morphological featurs in the language.
Let we begin on the first type known as isolating language.
The caracteristic of isolating language is every word have one morpheme and one
morpheme have one meaning
Look at this example :
Khi Tôi đȇn nhá bạn Tôi
When I come house Friend I
Chúng Tôi bặtdấu Iám Bái
plural I begin do lesson

When I came to my friend’s house, we began to do lessons

Nb. Vietnam Language
The second type of morphology typology is Aglutinative language
Aglutinative or Aglutinating language is where we have a root which is followed by
multiple affixes with a lot of these separation and affixes. Aglutinative language is not
only easy to distinguish the root from the affixes, but also the affixes usually have clear-
cut boundaries, as can be seen in the example above :
Ex : inconceivable
At least there are three morpheme consisting this word
The third type of morphological thypology is Fusional
Fusional or inflectional just like aglutinative language that many gramatical relation are
expressed with the help of affixes
But the different from aglutinative language is fusional language sometime allow the
same physical morp to express more than one morphem import to one morp which also
sometimes very difficult to separate and distinguish each other.
Let see an exemple: [re:ksisti] ‘you all ruled’
There are four pieces of grammatical information and four morphs,
however the ‘perfective’ meaning is shared among several morphs.
Re:k → rule
S → perfective
Is → pervective
Ti → perfective, second person, singular

The last type of morphological typology is polysynthetic language

polysynthetic languages may have words with multiple
stems in a single word (which are not compounds). This may be achieved by
incorporating the subject and object nouns into complex verb forms.
Let see an example :
he is fish-catching
This is called noun incorporation, where the object ‘fish’ is incorporated in the
verb ‘catch.’
languages often show elements of different morphological types.
If a language is hard to classify as one of the four main types, it may
be considered “mixed.” The properties that distinguish these types
may in fact be gradient rather than categorical.