{"id": "card_n_da20796077e5", "kind": "note", "title": "Agglutination — words as beads on a string", "body": "In agglutinative languages, a word is a sentence: morphemes stack in order, each one\ncrisp and separable, exactly like bases along a DNA strand. Turkish ev (house) -> ev-ler\n(houses) -> ev-ler-im (my houses) -> ev-ler-im-de (in my houses) -> ev-ler-im-de-ki (the one in\nmy houses); Swahili ni-na-ku-penda = I-present-you-love = 'I love you.' Sealed: one noun\nparadigm alone is 6x2x6 = 72 forms (https://narrowhighway.com/s/5635602375b641735e6151d28fa5157a73b1a13df1da910f905c868a8251cf8b). These languages READ like the genetic code —\na linear sequence of meaning-units parsed left to right — which is why they are the easiest\nplace to SEE morphology working, and a natural first target for a decomposer tool.", "source": {"label": "Concordance assay — 2026-07-09", "url": "https://narrowhighway.com/s/5635602375b641735e6151d28fa5157a73b1a13df1da910f905c868a8251cf8b", "ref": "morphology", "authority_tier": "engine_derived"}, "shelf": "science", "box": "morphology", "bands": ["agglutination", "turkish", "finnish", "swahili", "suffix stacking", "sequential morphology", "beads on a string", "paradigm"], "connections": [], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-07-10T02:13:43.295355+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T02:13:43.295355+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "63a077464205ae42b4e731015e52a4b6e1740b47219c4edc795491fa3ea01f5b"}