Swahili and Spanish, in which syntactic information is expressed via multiple affixes bound to words, are _______ languages.
A) associationist
B) connectionist
C) agglutinative
D) transitive

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Swahili and Spanish are agglutinative languages, where words are constructed from a sequence of morphemes that are each associated with a single meaning or grammatical feature, rather than a more fused approach where multiple meanings or features may be carried by a single morpheme. This is exemplified in Swahili where words can have multiple prefixes and suffixes attached to indicate tense, negation, mood, and various noun classes.

Swahili and Spanish, in Which Syntactic Information Is Expressed Via