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Analytic language

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a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings.

See also: analytical



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The study shows that English has shifted from being a fully synthetic toward an analytic language through assimilation and analogy.
More fundamentally, when she describes the "leakages" between metaphoric and analytic language, and between specialized vocabularies (legal, astronomical, medical, botanical, and so many others), which become fused by Shakespeare in a kind of poetic "ur-language," she uses her talent for rational distinctions to help us appreciate his achievement in the sonnets.
 
 
 
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