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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| Affixation | show 🗑
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| Agreement (grammatical) | show 🗑
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| Agglutinative Language | show 🗑
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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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| show | The presence of multiple permissible meanings or interpretations; compatibility with more than one structural representation
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| Animacy | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical category associated with verbs that expresses a temporal view of the event or state expressed by the verb
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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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| show | The marking on nouns that reflects their grammatical role in the sentence
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| show | A set of objects that are considered as having common features
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| Causative | show 🗑
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| show | A two-part affix that surrounds & attaches to a root or stem
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| show | The distinction between inclusive we & exclusive we
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| show | A word containing a stem that is made up of more than one root; a word that contains multiple roots in a single word
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| Compounding | show 🗑
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| Conjunction | show 🗑
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| show | The compositional structure of language; a form of order in language, where higher units are made up out of smaller ones
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| show | A linguistic structural part of a larger word, sentence, phrase, or clause
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| Continuous aspect | show 🗑
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| show | A word or affix that modifies, describes, quantifies, or introduces a noun
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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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| Distribution | show 🗑
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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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| show | A grammatical category used for groups of exactly two things
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| Dvandva compound | show 🗑
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| Endocentric | show 🗑
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| Exocentric | show 🗑
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| Evidential | show 🗑
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| First person | show 🗑
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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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| show | A single morpheme that can occur as a word on its own
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| show | A language in which many inflectional meanings are combined into single affixes – one form of a morpheme can simultaneously encode several meanings
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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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| show | The condition of having one distinct element (the “head”) that determines the category of a complex word or phrase as a whole
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| show | Words that sound the same but have different meanings
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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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| show | A way of assessing words to determine if they are of the same class, i.e., if a group of words can take a particular inflectional suffix, then they can be said to be of the same class of words
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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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| Isolating (or analytic) language | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical aspect expressing the repetition of an event observable on one single occasion
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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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| show | A person’s mental dictionary; the part of a grammar containing a speaker’s or signer’s knowledge about morphemes & words
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| show | The message conveyed by words, sentences, & symbols in a context
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| Modality | show 🗑
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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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| Morpheme-by-morpheme gloss | show 🗑
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| Morphological test | show 🗑
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| show | A word for the purposes of morphology
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| show | (Of words) Containing more than one morpheme
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| show | (Of words) Containing more than one morpheme
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| Morphology (in linguistics) | show 🗑
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| Negation | show 🗑
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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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| show | A grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, & verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one")
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| show | A word that expresses a number & relation to a number, such as quantity, sequence, frequency, fraction, etc.
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| show | A morphological feature appearing on nouns & pronouns to distinguish a relatively non-salient (obviative) third-person referent in a given context from a relatively salient (proximate) one
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| show | The thing/person that the action is done to or that is affected by a verb
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| Orthography | show 🗑
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| Paraphrase | show 🗑
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| Part of Speech | show 🗑
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| Participle | show 🗑
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| Paucal number | show 🗑
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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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| show | A word that functions like a noun & substitutes for a noun or noun phrase, e.g.. they, she, it, them, etc.
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| show | A morphological process in which a root or stem or part of it is repeated as part of a morphological pattern
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| Regular | show 🗑
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| Root | show 🗑
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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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| Singular | show 🗑
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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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| Syllable | show 🗑
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| show | (of a word) able to appear in different positions in a sentence, changing their order in relation to other elements
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| show | The process of looking at a set of words’ syntactic function to determine their category or categories
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| show | A word for the purposes of sentence structure
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| show | Sentence structure; the study of the structure & formation of sentences
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| Synthetic language | show 🗑
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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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| Tonal morpheme | show 🗑
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| show | A grammatical category used for groups of exactly three things
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| show | A graphical representation of the linear & hierarchical structure of a word, phrase, or sentence
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| show | The study of the ways the languages of the world vary in their patterns, e.g., which grammatical patterns are common to many languages & which are rare
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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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| (Word) Structure | show 🗑
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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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