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| The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category. Morphologically, consists of words to which the comparative suffix -er or the suffix -ness can be added. Syntactically, the category consists of those expressions that can be noun adjuncts or occur in between a determiner and a noun |
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| The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as quick, well, furiously, etc. Syntactically, adverbs can be verb phrase adjuncts |
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| Bound morpheme that attaches to a stem |
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| Process of forming words by adding affixes or morphemes |
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| A type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes. In agglutinating languages, morphemes are joined together loosely so that it is easy to determine where the boundaries between morphemes are |
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| The putting together of morphemes |
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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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| The phenomenon by which a single linguistic form (e.g. a word or a string of words) 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) (Also called Isolating) |
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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. Examples are Chinese and Vietnamese |
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| Morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes, never existing as a word itself |
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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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| Lexical category 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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| Word formation process by which words are formed through combining two or more independent words |
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| A lexical category that consists of function words such as and, but, however, etc. |
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| Morpheme that carries semantic content (as opposed to merely performing a grammatical function) |
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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 ____ words |
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| The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as the, a, this, all, etc. Syntactically, consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun to their right result in an expression of category noun phrase |
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| A morpheme that can stand alone as a word |
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| Morpheme that provides information about the grammatical relationships between words in a sentence |
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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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| 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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| The dominance relationship among morphemes in a word, or among constituents in a phrase |
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| The phenomenon by which two or more distinct morphemes or nonphrasal linguistic expressions happen to have the same form, i.e. sound the same |
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| Morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language |
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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, etc. |
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| affix that is inserted within the root morpheme |
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| The linguistic form before the application of a rule or a set of rules |
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| Lexical Category (or parts of speech) |
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| Class of words grouped together based on morphological properties |
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| Smallest linguistic unit that has a meaning or grammatical function |
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| The study of how words are constructed out of morphemes |
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| The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category. Morphologically, consists of words to which the plural suffix -s or the suffix -like can be added. Syntactically, consists of expressions that can combine with determiners to their left, the resulting expression being of category noun phrase |
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| Lexical category into which new members are often introduced |
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| The linguistic form obtained after an application of a rule or a set of rules |
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| Morphological reduplication in which only part of a morpheme is reduplicated |
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| A type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships |
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| Affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem |
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| The name of a lexical category and a syntactic category that consists of expressions such as at, in, for, with, etc. Syntactically, this category consists of those expressions that when combined with an expression of category noun phrase to their right result in an expression of category prepositional phrase |
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| The name of a lexical category that consists of words such as I, she, us, etc. Syntactically, pronouns belong to the category noun phrase |
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| The morpheme or part of a morpheme that is repeated in reduplication |
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| Process of forming new words by doubling either an entire word (total reduplication) or part of a word (partial reduplication) |
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| The 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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| The base, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which some affix is added. The ___ always includes the root and may also include one or more affixes |
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| The phenomenon where a single string of words (or morphemes) is the form of more than one distinct phrasal expression (or word) Arises because the same expressions can combine differently syntactically, resulting in distinct phrases that happen to have the same form |
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| Affix that attaches to the end of a stem |
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| A morphological process between forms of a word where one form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from the other |
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| Language in which affixes are attached to other morphemes, so that a word may be made up of several meaningful elements |
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| Reduplication in which an entire morpheme is repeated |
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| The name of a lexical category that consists of all words to which, for example, -ing or -able can be suffixed |
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| The combination of morphemes according to rules of the language in question to make new words or forms of words |
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