Morphology

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Affix

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bound morpheme that attaches to a stem

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affixation

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process of forming words by adding affixes to morphemes

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agglutinating language

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a type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes.

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allomorph

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one of a set of nondistinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically similar

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alternation

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a difference between two or more phonetic forms that one might expect to be related

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ambiguity

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the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form

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analytic language

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consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes

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bound morpheme

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morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself

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bound root

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morpheme that has some associated basic meaning, but that is unable to stand alone as a word in its own right

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closed lexical category

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in which the members are fairly rigidly established and additions are made very rarely and only over long periods of time

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compounding

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word formation process by which words are formed through combined two or more independent words

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conjunction

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function words and but however etc.

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content morpheme

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morpheme that carries semantic content

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content word

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a word who’s primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phase in which it occurs

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derivation

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a process by which an underlying form is changed as phonological rules act upon it

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determiner

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the name of a lexical and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the a this all

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form

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the structure or shape of any linguistic item

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free morpheme

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can stand alone as a word

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function morpheme

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provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence

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function word

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has little semantic content and whose primary purpose it to indicate grammatical relationships between other words in a phrase

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fusional language

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synthetic language in which the relationships between the words in a sentence are indicated by bound morphemes that are difficult to separate from the stem

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hierarchical structure

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the dominance relationship among morphemes in a word

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homophony

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two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form

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incorporation

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morphological process which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language

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infix

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a type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem

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inflection

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a morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information such as person, number, tense ,gender

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input

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the form before the palliation of a rule or a set of rules

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lexical category

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class of words grouped together based on morphological properties

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lexicon

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a mental repository of linguistic information about words and other lexical expressions, including their form, meaning, morphological and synthetic properties

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morpheme

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smallest linguistic unit that has meaning

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morphology

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the stud of how words are constructed out of morphemes

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open lexical category

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into which new members are introduced

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output

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form obtained after an application of rules

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partial reduplication

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in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated

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polysynthetic language

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type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicated grammatical language

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prefix

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affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem

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preposition

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lexical category and synthetic category: of, in, for, with, etc.

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productive

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a rule that can be applied in novel situations to produce novel grammatical form

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pronoun

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I, she, us. etc

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reduplicant

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morpheme or a part that is reduplicated

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reduplication

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process of forming new words by doubling either an entire word or part of it

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root

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the free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to a word

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simultaneous affix

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affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix; exists only in in visual gestural languages

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stem

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the base, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which some affix is added

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suffix

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affix that attaches to the end of a stem

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suppletion

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a morp. process between forms of a word wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other