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| the study of word structure |
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| the smallest sequence of phonemes that has meaning |
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| a language where words are made from strings of relatively stable morphemes |
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| a language that depends mostly on word order for meaning |
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| languages that employ word ending for grammatical function |
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| whether a word is singular or plural |
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| grammatical function of a noun, pronoun, adjective, or determiner |
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| closed morphological cases |
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- in English includes pronouns, conjunctions, and auxilary verbs, prepositions, and inflectional suffixes
- does not add new members
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| word forms adapt to new grammatical and semantic demands & new members can be added |
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| the vowel change in verbs (ie: sing & sang) |
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| a word that consists of one morpheme but still has meaning, like a root word (ie:word) |
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| modify a verb's tense or a nouns's number without affecting the word's meaning or class (ie: adding -s or -ed to the end of a word) |
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| a morpheme that creates nouns from verbs (ie: -er, talk to talker) |
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| an element of a word that is joined or fixed to the base or root word |
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| placed, with certain morphological and phonolgical constraints, within a word |
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| bound morphemes that are not affixes |
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| a word's hierarchical organization |
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| the absience of a word in a language |
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| a word created for a one time use in a specific context |
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| Combination of free morphemes |
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| Attach a bound morpheme at the beginning of an already exsisting word |
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| Attach a bound morpheme to the end of an already exsisting word |
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