Classifiers are words which identify the noun class of a noun and are usually used with numbers and other quantifiers, perhaps as a marker of plurality. Their function is similar to that of head in English ten head of cattle . Here are some Chinese examples. Synthetic languages sharply distinguish between lexemes and grammatical morphemes. The Latin declension system in Table 2 exemplifies a fusional morphological system.
Incorporation is a special word for referring to long compounds in agglutinative languages.
Often these compounds have several stems as well as many grammatical morphemes in them. Example 4b is a sentence. Northwest United States 4. Others, like the various Eskimo dialects, have as many as 200. Other languages, with fewer than 100 affixes, must develop ways of expressing all the functions with fewer affixes.