Feature 20A: Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives

by Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols

This feature is discussed in chapter 20. Related examples are available.

Values

Exclusively concatenative (125 languages)
Exclusively isolating (16 languages)
Exclusively tonal (3 languages)
Tonal/isolating (1 languages)
Tonal/concatenative (2 languages)
Ablaut/concatenative (5 languages)
Isolating/concatenative (13 languages)
  total: 165