A linguist or scholar who believes that languages are primarily formed by combining smaller grammatical units.
From agglutination + -ist (Greek -istos) meaning 'one who practices or believes in.' Refers to those studying or supporting agglutinative language theory.
Agglutinationist linguists had a major debate in the 1800s about language evolution—they believed agglutination showed how simpler word-parts combined over time, an idea that shaped how we still classify languages today.
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