Is Unish Moving toward Becoming a More Analytic Language?: With Special Reference to Morphological Changes
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This paper scrutinizes the morphology of Unish, one of the international auxiliary languages, with respect to its correlations of word order typology and discusses a linguistic type of Unish. It has been reported that Unish has the fixed word order SVO (i.e., subject-verbobject), little inflection, which means there are no cases of nominal or accusative markers, and no gender distinction markers. In light of this, this paper proposes that Unish is an analytic language where the syntactic or the semantic information is mostly conveyed by relying on the word order rather than the morphological processes. Finally, it is shown in this paper that Unish has evolved, and it is heading towards a stricter analytic language via the elimination of inflection and the reconstruction of the pronoun systems. These morphological changes that Unish has undergone are in accordance with linguistic typology.
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This paper scrutinizes the morphology of Unish, one of the international auxiliary languages, with respect to its correlations of word order typology and discusses a linguistic type of Unish. It has been reported that Unish has the fixed word order SVO (i.e., subject-verbobject), little inflection, which means there are no cases of nominal or accusative markers, and no gender distinction markers. In light of this, this paper proposes that Unish is an analytic language where the syntactic or the semantic information is mostly conveyed by relying on the word order rather than the morphological processes. Finally, it is shown in this paper that Unish has evolved, and it is heading towards a stricter analytic language via the elimination of inflection and the reconstruction of the pronoun systems. These morphological changes that Unish has undergone are in accordance with linguistic typology.
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