binder

Binder can be used as adjective or as noun. In the first case, qualify what has the ability to agglutinate (that is, to get different elements to be joined together).

In the field of medicine, the substance or object that adheres firmly to the skin and that allows to agglutinate. Binders, in this setting, can contribute to healing by promoting adherence.

A binder, on the other hand, is a substance that is used to dilute pigments of a painting or a varnish. These binders can not only be mixed with the different pigments, but also provide the texture needed for the paint to be applied and give it strength after the drying process.

The paint drying it can develop in different ways. There are paints that dry from the evaporation of the solvents present in the binder. In other cases, in addition to this evaporation, a reaction chemical type that makes the paint harden.

The idea of ​​binder can also be used in the field of linguistics. The binding languages they appeal to words that are formed from the union of independent monemes. These terms are made up of affixes and lexemes that have already defined grammatical or referential meanings.

The concept of monema, for its part, refers to an abstract transformation or an irreducible sequence of phonemes that generates modifications in the meaning regular and systematic where it is applied or added. In other words, we can say that it is the smallest unit of meaning of a language. Broadly speaking, we can talk about two types of moneme, which are the following: lexeme, with autonomous and concrete meaning; morpheme, which may or may not depend on the union with another lexeme to acquire meaning.

Therefore, in an agglutinating language, affixes are located in a specific place according to the meaning that you want to create with the root. In the tongues mergingInstead, affixes merge with each other and take different forms according to the rest of the morphemes.

The term binder tongue dates from the year 1836, when it was coined by scholar known as Wilhelm von Humboldt, one of those responsible for the founding of the current Humboldt University of Berlin. Thanks to this distinction between these languages ​​and the fusion languages, it is possible to classify them according to their morphology.

However, despite the existence of these two categories, there is no clear line that separates themInstead, the most common way to differentiate one from the other is by paying attention to their trend. To say with certainty that a language is a binder type, we must check that it meets the following requirements:

* that their words can be segmented into morphemes that cannot be altered by the adjacent ones;

* that each morph (the expression phonics of morphemes) perform only one grammatical category.

In the fusing languages, among which is Spanish, we can observe the opposite. For example, our shape denial in- changes according to the rest of the word of which it is a part: although it is in- in the case of "untouchable", it becomes im- in "unthinkable" and to go- in "irreplaceable".

In general, in the agglutinating languages ​​it can be seen that the suffixes they stick to the roots (which are usually monosyllabic), and thus it is possible specify or modify the meaning. Some examples of current binding languages ​​are Japanese, Guarani, Basque, Quechua, Swahili, and Turkish.