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Each of the types A, B, C, D may be subdivided into an agglutinative, a fusional, and a symbolic sub-type, according to the prevailing method of modification of the radical element.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

What are we to do with the fusional and symbolic languages that do not express relational concepts in the word but leave them to the sentence?

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

Isolating, agglutinative, fusional, and symbolic is a preferable scheme, but still skirts the external.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward