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  • ...omponent of a word that (a) seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decompos ''Kangaroo'' is one morpheme. ''Kangaroos'' is two morphemes, ''kangaroo'' and plural ''-s''. The ''-s''
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  • ...'' is a type of [[bound morpheme]] that cannot be assigned a meaning nor a grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from the other. ...rphemes plays a role in the discussion whether morphology is word based or morpheme based (e.g. Aronoff 1976).
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  • '''Grammaticalization''' is a diachronic process by which grammatical items arise from constructions with lexical items. ...ncing from a lexical to a grammatical or from a less grammatical to a more grammatical status, e.g. from a derivative formant to an inflectional one." (Kurylowicz
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  • The term '''gram''' is sometimes used as a short form of [[grammatical morpheme]], following Bybee et al. 1994. *[[Bybee, Joan L.]] 1986. On the nature of grammatical categories: a diachronic perspective. ''Eastern States Conference on Lingui
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  • ...uniquely defined. Some linguists consider the root to be the basic [[free morpheme]] in a [[derivation|derived form]]. ...', the root is each time ''ripe''. The [[morpheme]]s un-. -en and -er have grammatical rather than lexical meaning and therefore are [[affix]]es, not roots.
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  • A '''suffix''' is is a [[bound morpheme]] (or [[affix]]) which attaches at the righthand side of a [[base]], i.e. w ...nds. But the apparently parallel terms “prefix”, "suffix”, “infix” are not grammatical; they refer, rather to positional classes of the morphs which represent bou
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  • ...' or 'agent noun'), while M-rules are affixation rules which spell out the grammatical functions. ...uralization which simply adds the feature [plural]. The resulting abstract morpheme is input to different M-rules, and these rules spell out the actual phonolo
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  • ...ive''' is a construction in which the [[logical object]] shows up as the [[grammatical subject]], while the [[logical subject]] is not expressed at all or shows u ...ucture of complex words and the specific lexical properties of the passive morpheme. Languages vary with respect to the ways of forming a passive; sometimes it
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  • ...] has one phonological form and one [[meaning]], and every [[meaning]] (or grammatical category) corresponds to exactly one phonological form.
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  • ...f vowels are intercalated. This set of vowels sometimes itself signifies a grammatical category such as 'perfective active'. Furthermore, the structure of words w ...t ''ktb'', the perfective active morpheme ''a'' and the perfective passive morpheme ''u-i'', respectively, and the binyan I template CVCVC. These words differ
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  • ...t or grammatical function is expressed by a totally or partially different morpheme which has little or no phonological connection with the [[base]] form.
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  • A '''word-form''' is a syntagmatic unit between the morpheme and the phrase that is generally taken by linguists to correspond to the el *[[grammatical word]] (this term is probably more common in English than ''word-form'')
    697 bytes (89 words) - 19:56, 2 August 2014
  • ...me, usually an inflectional affix, expresses several different meanings or grammatical functions. The morphology of many Indo-European languages is fusional.
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  • Grammatische [[Morphem|Morpheme]] (z.B. ''-es'', ''-ung'', ''dass'') sind eine Unterklasse von Morphemen, d ...hen ist kaum möglich. Daher muss die geschlossene Klasse der grammatischen Morpheme in jeder Sprache durch Aufzählung definiert werden (vgl. Croft 2000: 260-2
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  • ...ts. Starting with the traditional assumption that a lexical item (likewise morpheme, phoneme) is a unit of some kind, an object or symbol or combination of sym ...ntic -- and if we ponder what the meaning of 'has' is here, it is that the morpheme is connected to such properties. So we have further connections.
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  • ...n]] process by which some part of a base (= a [[segment]], [[syllable]], [[morpheme]]) is repeated, either to the left, or to the right, or, occasionally, in t ...ical material. The function can be semantic (intensity, plurality, etc) or grammatical (agreement with subject, aspect, etc).
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  • ...hey are parts of the syntactic X<sup>0</sup>). Affixes need stems as their grammatical hosts, they necessarily cooccur with stems. ...e, this view is somewhat misleading. For such examples see [[simulfix]], [[morpheme]] or [[formative]].
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  • ...logical system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each [[morpheme]] corresponds to a single lexical meaning. ...istinctions in Word-formation. In Shopen, T. (ed.) ''Language Typology and Grammatical Description, vol. 3.'' Cambridge: CUP.
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  • '''Verbs''' are [[lexical]] [[morpheme]]s denoting [[situation]]s. ...[Latin]]: ''verbum'' (word). Already in the Middle Ages it was used in its grammatical meaning by missionars.
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  • * ''relational morpheme'' (Croft 2003:33) ...l uses prepositions and so-called 'relational nouns' to mark NPs for their grammatical or thematic relations — to FLAG them, in the terminology of relational gr
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