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 primarily by bound morphemes. morphemes are joined together loosely so that it us easy to determine where the boundaries between morphemes are

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allomorph

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

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alternation

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uses morpheme-internal modifications to make new words or morphological distinctions

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ambiguity

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the phenomenon by which a single linguistic form can be the form of more than one distinct linguistic expression. the form that is shared by more than one expression is said to be ambiguous

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analytic language

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type of language in which most words consist of one morpheme and sentences are composed of sequences of these free morphemes. grammatical relationships are often indicated by word order

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bound morpheme

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

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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 rigid 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 combining two or more are formed through combining 2 or more independent words

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conjunction

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a lexical category that consists of function words

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content morpheme

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morpheme that carries semantic content (as opposed to merely performing grammatical function)

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content word

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a word whose primary purpose is to contribute semantic content to the phrase in which it occurs. all free content morphemes are content words

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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 category and syntactic category that consists of expressions such as a this all etc. syntactically, consists of those expressions of category noun phrase

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form

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a structure or shape of any particular linguistic item

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free morpheme

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a morpheme that can stand alone as a word

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function morpheme

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morpheme that provides information about the grammatical relationship between words in a sentence

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function word

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a word that has little semantic content and whose primary purpose is to indicate grammatical relationships between other words within a phrase

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fusional language

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a type of 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 at relatively high area of the oral cavity

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homophony

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the phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or non phrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form (sound the same)

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incorporation

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morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in poly synthetic language

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infix

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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 a person, number, tense, gender etc

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input

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linguistic form before the application of a rule or set of rules

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lexical category

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class of words grouped together based on morphological properties. traditionally known as part of speech

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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 syntactic properties. as part of a descriptive not mental, grammar, the lexicon i the representation of the mental lexicon consisting of lexical entries that capture the relevant properties of lexical expressions

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morpheme

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smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function

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open lexical category

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new member are often introduced

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output

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the linguistic form obtained after an application of a rules or set of rules

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partial reduplication

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only part of a morpheme is reduplicated

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polysynthetic language

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a type if language tat attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships

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prefix

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affix that attaches to the beginning of the stem

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preposition

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the name of a lexical category that consists of expressions such as of in for with etc. syntactically, this category consists of those expressions that when combined with a noun phrase to their right result in a prepositional phrase

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productive

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describes a rule (stating under what circumstances an affix may be added to a stem)that can be applied in novel situations to produce novel grammatical forms

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pronoun

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lexical category that consists of words such as I she us etc. syntactically, pronouns belong to the category

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reduplication

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

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reduplicant

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the morpheme of part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication

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root

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free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach

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simultaneous affix

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an affix that is articulated at the same time as some other affix or affixes in a word

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stem

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the base consisting of one or more morphemes to which some affix is added. the stem always includes the root and may also include one or more affixes

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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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morphological process between forms of a words wherein one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other