ABSTRACT
A type of classification postulated by Schlegel (1818) under morphological aspects for languages that have the tendency to mark the syntactic relations in the sentence wordexternally with the help of function words ( synsemantic word), such as prepositions or auxiliary verbs, e.g. Fr. la maison du père vs Ger. Vaters Haus ‘father’s house,’ Eng. more beautiful vs Ger. schöner. In contrast see synthetic language. The tendency towards analyticity is to be found in most modern languages, the genuine type (e.g. Chinese, Vietnamese) is also termed isolating.
