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24 mars 2023
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ILARA, « The Incredible Agglutinative Power of South Caucasian (Kartvelian) Languages », ILARA - Institut des langues rares, ID : 10.58079/q3at
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by Hélène Gérardin When we hear of agglutination, we think of crowds, cells or grains, but certainly not of languages. However, languages too can agglutinate things, and in a surprisingly complex way! If a language is agglutinative, it means it can string together bits of significant grammatical information into the roots of words, in the form of affixes (prefixed if in front of a root; suffixed if at the end; infixed if inside; or circumfixed if around). While languages like En...