A fusional language (also called inflecting language) is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to overlay many morphemes in a way that can be difficult to segment.

Examples of fusional Indo-European languages are Sanskrit (and the modern Indo-Aryan languages), Greek (classical and modern), Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Polish, Slovak and Czech. Another notable group of fusional languages is the Semitic languages group. A high degree of fusion is also found in many Sami languages, such as Skolt Sami.

An illustration of fusionality is the Latin word bonus "good". The ending -us denotes masculine gender, nominative case, and singular number. Changing any one of these features requires replacing the suffix -us with a different one. In the form bonum, the ending -um denotes either masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular or neuter nominative singular.

Fusional languages are generally believed to have descended from agglutinative languages, though there is no linguistic evidence in the form of attested language changes to confirm this view. On the other hand, fusional languages generally tend to lose their inflection over the centuries—some languages much more quickly than others. For example, supposedly, Sanskrit, Latin, Slovenian, Lithuanian, and Armenian are about as fusional as the unattested Proto-Indo-European, but modern English and Afrikaans are nearly analytic. The Slavic and Baltic languages have generally retained their inflection, along with Greek.

Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist and freestyle skateboarder who has gained worldwide acclaim for his video art, painting and photographs.

The artist was born in Sydney in 1972 and graduated from Sydney University's Sydney College of the Arts. He graduated with a Masters degree from the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts and untertook associate research at Goldsmiths College, London (2001-2)

Gladwell is a digital artist, who skillfully combines past and present in a street manner. In art historical terms, his embodiment of physical and aesthetic risk aligns him to artists who combine sport and art.

Gladwell describes his video art as “performance landscapes”, and whether they are set in rural or urban settings, they usually present a juxtaposition of the visual against the environment where it exists. He often uses filmic devices such as slow-motion and long pans to capture both tightly choreographed and improvised performances. The resulting works are surprisingly hypnotic and beautifully poetic, due to their distortion of speed, reversed gravity or overall displacement of space and time.