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Morphology

a measure of morphological typology computed as the ratio of morphemes to words in a text, one of several indices used to place languages on scales.

In morphology, index of synthesis refers to a measure of morphological typology computed as the ratio of morphemes to words in a text, one of several indices used to place languages on scales. This meaning comes from Greenberg (1960) in International Journal of American Linguistics.[1]

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  1. Greenberg, J. H. (1960). A Quantitative Approach to the Morphological Typology of Language. International Journal of American Linguistics, 26(3), 178-194. https://doi.org/10.1086/464575

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