Morphology terms
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| Adjective | show 🗑
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| show | A word belonging to a class of words which modify any constituent class of words except nouns or pronouns, e.g., verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses, sentences
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| show | A morpheme attached to a word stem or base to form a new word or word form
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| show | A morphological process in which a morpheme is attached to a root
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| Agreement (grammatical) | show 🗑
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| show | A language in which words are made up of a linear sequence of distinct morphemes & each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme
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| Allomorph | show 🗑
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| show | The phenomenon in which morphemes have a consistent meaning, but appear in different forms depending on the environment
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| Ambiguity | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical feature categorizing nouns based on their living or sentient nature
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| Aspect | show 🗑
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| show | A morpheme/form of a word that derivational affixes (e.g., prefixes, suffixes) can be added to
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| Bound morpheme | show 🗑
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| Case | show 🗑
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| show | A set of objects that are considered as having common features
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| show | An inflectional distinction that expresses that an event was caused by an outside actor
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| show | A two-part affix that surrounds & attaches to a root or stem
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| Clusivity | show 🗑
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| Compound | show 🗑
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| Compounding | show 🗑
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| show | A word used to connect words, phrases, & clauses, e.g., and, but, or; because, although, etc.
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| Constituency | show 🗑
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| show | A linguistic structural part of a larger word, sentence, phrase, or clause
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| show | An imperfective aspect that expresses an ongoing, but not habitual, occurrence of the state or event expressed by the verb
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| Determiner | show 🗑
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| show | Morphology that changes the meaning or category of its base
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| Direct object | show 🗑
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| show | The grammatical contexts in which words or morphemes are used
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| show | A way of assessing words to determine if they are of the same class, i.e., if a group of words can all fill one syntactic slot, then they can be said to be of the same class of words
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| Dual number | show 🗑
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| Dvandva compound | show 🗑
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| show | (Of a compound) Having a head, i.e., a part of the compound describes its member
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| Exocentric | show 🗑
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| show | An inflectional marking to indicate a speaker’s certainty about what they’re saying or the source of their evidence for what they say
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| show | A set of words or forms (as pronouns or verb forms) referring to the one who makes an utterance, e.g., I, me, my, mine, we
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| show | Me + you and maybe some other people
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| show | Me + one or more other people, not you
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| Free morpheme | show 🗑
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| Fusional language | show 🗑
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| Gender | show 🗑
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| Gerund | show 🗑
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| Gloss | show 🗑
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| Head (morphology) | show 🗑
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| Headedness (morphology) | show 🗑
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| Homophones | show 🗑
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| Indirect object | show 🗑
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| show | An affix that attaches inside its base & appears in the middle of another morpheme
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| show | Morphology that expresses grammatical information appropriate to a word’s category; does not change a word’s category
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| Inflectional test | show 🗑
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| show | A form, typically brief, such as one syllable or word, which is used most often as an exclamation or part of an exclamation
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| Internal change | show 🗑
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| show | (Of a word) Not obeying the usual rules in the language for word changes
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| show | A language in which almost every word consists of a single morpheme
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| Iterative aspect | show 🗑
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| show | Classes of words (e.g., noun, verb, preposition) which differ in how other words can be constructed out of them
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| Lexically conditioned allomorphy | show 🗑
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| Lexicon | show 🗑
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| Meaning | show 🗑
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| show | A morphological feature expressing the possibility or necessity of something happening
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| show | the smallest unit of language that contains meaning, pairing both form (sign or sound) & meaning or grammatical function
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| show | Explanations about the meanings & grammatical properties of individual words & parts of words
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| Morphological test | show 🗑
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| Morphological word | show 🗑
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| show | (Of words) Containing more than one morpheme
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| Morphologically simple | show 🗑
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| Morphology (in linguistics) | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical construction that contradicts (or negates) all or part of the meaning of a sentence
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| show | A word that refers to people, places, things, ideas, or concepts & may act as the subjects of a verb, the object of a verb (direct or indirect), or object of a preposition (or postposition)
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| Number | show 🗑
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| Numeral | show 🗑
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| Obviation | show 🗑
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| Object of a verb | show 🗑
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| Orthography | show 🗑
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| show | A different way of saying the same thing
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| Part of Speech | show 🗑
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| Participle | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical category used for small groups
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| Person | show 🗑
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| show | A word for the purposes of sound patterns
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| Phonologically conditioned allomorphy | show 🗑
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| Plural | show 🗑
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| show | A language in which words tend to consist of several morphemes
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| Possessor | show 🗑
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| Prefix | show 🗑
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| Preposition | show 🗑
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| Pronoun | show 🗑
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| Reduplication | show 🗑
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| show | (Of a word) Obeying the usual rules in the language for word changes
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| show | The morpheme that remains when all affixes are removed; the core of a word that cannot be further analyzed without losing its meaning
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| Second person | show 🗑
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| show | Any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech or the formation of a word
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| show | Divide words in another language into their individual morphemes, i.e., identify roots & affixes in complex words
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| Selection | show 🗑
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| Semantic definition | show 🗑
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| show | An affix in signed languages that takes place at the same time as its base
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| show | A grammatical category of number that indicates exactly one
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| Stem | show 🗑
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| Subject | show 🗑
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| show | An affix that follows its base
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| show | A morphological process in whcih one stem replaces another with another which has no phonological similarity
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| show | A unit of sound composed of a central peak of sonority (usually a vowel) & the consonants that cluster around this central peak
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| Syntactically independent | show 🗑
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| Syntactic test | show 🗑
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| show | A word for the purposes of sentence structure
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| Syntax | show 🗑
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| show | A language with a lot of morphological complexity in words, often with no (or very few) free roots
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| Tense | show 🗑
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| show | A set of words or forms (as pronouns or verb forms) referring to another person or thing & not directly about the speaker or about the person being addressed, e.g., they, she, he, their
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| show | A morpheme expressed solely as tone in languages where a change in tone expresses grammatical information
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| Trail number | show 🗑
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| show | A graphical representation of the linear & hierarchical structure of a word, phrase, or sentence
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| Typology | show 🗑
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| Verb | show 🗑
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| show | The smallest separable unit in a language, the smallest unit that can stand on its own in an utterance
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| show | The member of a set of inflectional affixes represented by the absence of an expected morpheme
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