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And why can't Japanese be considered strongly isolative, with each of the affixes that make up a long word being its own word?
Initially intrigued by Zampan? s isolative tendencies and surreal sense of reality, Johnny unknowingly sets himself up as a victim to the daunting task that awaits him.
Uh . . . my sister and I have been discussing agglutinative, isolative, and inflectional languages, and it got me thinking . . . how do you define a word anyways?
In short, how, how, how do we know that Mandarin is isolative while Japanese is agglutinative ? thx for any ideas talk 04 : 08, 12 October 2009 ( UTC)