Synthetic and Analytic Forms

The menas used for building up grammatical forms are either synthetic or analytic. Synthetic grammatical forms are realized by the inner morphemic cimposition of the word, while analytic grammatical forms are built up by a combination of two and more words.Synthetic grammatical forms include inner inflection, outher inflexion and suppletivity. Inner inflexion is used in English in irregular verbs and in forming the number of some nouns. Outer inflection is used to build up the number and case forms of the noun; the person , number, tense, participal and gerundial forms of the verb; the degrees of comparison of the adjective and adverb. Suppletivity is based on the use of different roots as a means of paradigmatic differetation; go-went, bad-worse, I-me. Analytic forms imply at least two parts which present a combination of an auxiliary word with a basic word. In some cases there may be more than two parts. Some linguists disttinguish idiomatic and non-idiomatic grammatical combinations. They maintain that grammaticaly idiomatic combinations are those whose releyant grammatical meaning is not depend on the meaning of their components taken separately. In non-idiomatic grammatical combinations the components preserve to some extent their meaning.