No abstract

Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly infl ecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratifi cation of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly infl ecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish.

Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly infl ecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratifi cation of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly infl ecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish.