Chinese is morphologically even simpler than English. From what I've heard words barely change their form at all.
Most complex IE language (Morphologically)
Stewart
What about learning some good books of linguistics instead of writing bullshit in this forum?
What about learning some good books of linguistics instead of writing bullshit in this forum?
Portuguese? I don't think so. It has no more cases than English. Verb conjugation is complex of course, but similar to the other Romance languages I believe. But noun declination is minimal.
Romance languages don't have noun clases. English still has some remanents: -less , 's, ...
Portuguese has the most complicated verbal system amongst European languages. Besides it retains the noun gender unlike English
Probably Sanskrit? But as it's a dead language, shall we count it? and of course I agree about Lithuanian.
Tvoja mat' i moja mat', odna i ta zhe suka! Da, moja mat' suka, nu i chto? Ona soset moj huj kazhdyj den'.
Can we charactize morphological complexity as the total number of morphemes, or the number of different functions that one morpheme can perform?
For example, in Albanian the morpheme 'e' can be:
the conjunction: and
a clitic showing a direct object
a particle linking an adjective to a singular feminine noun
a particle linking an adjective to a singular accusative noun of either gender
a particle linking an adjective to a plural definite noun in accusative or nominative
would it be more, or less complex if there were a separate morpheme for each of the above?
For example, in Albanian the morpheme 'e' can be:
the conjunction: and
a clitic showing a direct object
a particle linking an adjective to a singular feminine noun
a particle linking an adjective to a singular accusative noun of either gender
a particle linking an adjective to a plural definite noun in accusative or nominative
would it be more, or less complex if there were a separate morpheme for each of the above?
edit:
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it can also be a particle showing a possessive pronoun for which the referent is plural, nominative/accusative, of either gender.
e
it can also be a particle showing a possessive pronoun for which the referent is plural, nominative/accusative, of either gender.