Meaning of BINDER language with examples
There are many languages in the world. Each of them has an origin and an evolution, reflected in the Language classification which is studied in Primary and in Linguistics. Spanish is no less. Have you ever stopped to think what kind of language is spoken in Spain? Although Spanish in itself is not a type of binding language, some of the co-official languages are. In a PROFESSOR we explain the meaning of binding language and examples, emphasizing their differential features and which languages fall within this typology. Ready?
The morphology As part of linguistics, it studies and analyzes the internal structure and the formation of words or new words. It is this morphological study that defines and classifies each element that constitutes each word, as well as the different words that originate within the expressions and topology of each language.
Due to their morphology, three must be distinguished distinct types of languages:
- Monosyllabic. Of a single syllable, and of invariable meaning. This type of language includes Chinese, Burmese, Siamese, Anamite and other Indochinese languages.
- Binders. Words-phrases formed by the union of two, three or more words.
- Bending, also calls fusing languages. They present words and elements united to such a degree that they form a single unit, since if they are separated they lose their meaning. Indo-European and Semitic languages are pigeonholed in these languages, although the latter are grouped by some linguists between inflections and binders.
The rest of the existing languages, up to more than two thousand, would be classified as agglutinating languages.
Although there is no prior clarity and differentiation between one and the other languages, binders more closely resemble fusing languages; However, there is unanimity and it is clear that there are very agglutinating languages (Georgian with eight morphemes per word) or some are more so than others.
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In our language they are many examples of agglutination that we can find: para (from by to), sinfín (from without end), scoundrel (from without shame), and many other derivations of Latin such as still (from tota via) among others.
Agglutination in Spanish occurs in short, ordinary phrases where the word is comparable to all the others (endless to endless); in a new unit in the synthesis and agglutination of the elements (perhaps that comes from who knows, and its meaning would be who knows); and the changes that can be made with a word, such as verb conjugations (cant-o, cant-aré, cant-aba).
An agglutinating language is the Basque language, which uses as a base a single word with a single meaning, and agglutinating suffixes to form expressions in different grammatical numbers. For example:
Etxe = house
- -etxeak = the houses
- -etxeko = of the house (in the sense that someone or something belongs to the house)
- -etxerako = that goes to the house
- -etxeraino = to the house.
In binding languages, affixes (independent monemes) must go in the place that corresponds to them, according to the meaning and sense that you want to add to the root to give meaning to the word that is composed.
See Ferdinand de Saussure. General linguistics course, Buenos Aires, Losada, 2005.
