Comparative Concept: fusion (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
fusion (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | fusion |
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Definition
a highly grammaticalized strategy for encoding the relation in major propositional acts ( modifier– referent, predicate– argument), in which the two elements are fused in a single morpheme. Example: Lakhota ina 'my mother' fuses 'my' and 'mother'. (Section 4.5)