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Language classification, in which there is no one-to-one correspondence…
Language classification
genealogical
classification is probably that of isolating, agglutinating, and inflecting (or fusional) languages,
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The problem
a tendency for genetically related languages to be typologically similar in many ways, typological similarity of itself is no proof of genetic relationship
From work in typology in the second half of the 20th century, it emerged that certain logically unconnected features tend to occur together, so the presence of feature A in a given language will tend to imply the presence of feature B.
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implications
The discovery of unexpected implications of this kind calls for an explanation and gives a stimulus to research in many branches of linguistics.
in which there is no one-to-one correspondence between particular word segments and particular grammatical categories
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Indo-European languages
the Latin suffix -is represents the combination of categories “singular” and “genitive” in the word form hominis “of the man,” but one part of the suffix cannot be assigned to “singular” and another to “genitive,” and -is is only one of many suffixes that in different classes (or declensions) of words represent the combination of “singular” and “genitive.”