Introflexive

Quick meaning: Introflexive is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.

Meaning

(linguistics) Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.

Example Sentences

The above sections have shown that there is much more to morphological typology than the traditional scale ranging from isolating to introflexive languages given in (27) can capture.

The introflexive type is relatively strongly developed in the Semitic languages; it never serves as a basis for the whole structure of a language, but is always combined with another, more extensively developed type.

Considering the effect segmentation has on this introflexive type it may be viewed as a special case of the agglutinative type: Every "normal" word (word stem) can be broken down into a (discontinuous) root (normally consisting of three consonants C₁C₂C₃) and a stem-constitutive morpheme: fataha 'to open (tr.)' must be analyzed as /f...t...h/ 'OPEN' (the root) plus /CaCaCa/, which represnents the basic verbal stem, also called the first (verbal) stem or stem I.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inflexional, athematic, acrodynamic, inflectional, rhizotonic, formative.

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