Agglutinating language

Agglutinating language is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each morpheme corresponds to a single lexical meaning.

Examples
Classical examples of agglutinating languages are Turkish and Quechua.

(i) Turkish


 * ev-||ler-||i-||den||
 * ||house||PL-||POSS-||ABL||
 * colspan="2"|'from their house'
 * }
 * colspan="2"|'from their house'
 * }
 * colspan="2"|'from their house'
 * }

(ii)Quechua


 * maqa-||chi-||naku-||rka-||n ||
 * ||beat||CAUS-||RECP-||PL-||3||
 * colspan="2"|'They let each other be beaten.'||
 * }
 * colspan="2"|'They let each other be beaten.'||
 * }
 * colspan="2"|'They let each other be beaten.'||
 * }

Comments
Next to agglutinating languages, one distinguishes (in)flectional languages, isolating languages, and polysynthetic languages. One basic assumption underlying this typology is that agglutination is the primary type of word formation, and that the other three types are deviations from it. This traditional classification of languages into four morphological groups has been criticized for being both incoherent and useless.

Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Other languages
German agglutinierende Sprache Chinese 黏着语