agglutinative
/uh-gloot-n-ey-tiv, uh-gloot-n-uh-/US // əˈglut nˌeɪ tɪv, əˈglut n ə- //UK // (əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv) //
凝集的,凝集性的,凝集性,凝集型
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adj.形容词 adjective
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- : tending or having power to agglutinate or unite: an agglutinative substance.
- : Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination. Compare inflectional, isolating.
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Such languages could be termed “agglutinative-isolating,” “fusional-isolating” and “symbolic-isolating.”
Agglutinative languages do not often possess special adverbial endings.
Agglutinative action is evidence of the presence in a serum of a somewhat similar set of substances, known as “agglutinins.”
In the agglutinative languages, or at any rate in some of them, some of the post-fixed elements have still an independent value.
But the distinction between them and the so-called agglutinative languages is one of degree rather than of kind.
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