[…] analytic constructions as opposed to synthetic ones prevail in pidgins and pidginized varieties so that complex forms are decomposed into their component morphemes. A language which is analytic in structure indicates syntactic relations by means of function words and word order as opposed to synthetic languages, where such formal relationships are expressed by the combination of elements (eg prefixes, suffixes, and infixes) with the base or stem word.
- Romaine (1988), a pag.28