Stem

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A stem is a morphological constituent to which affixes may be attached or to which morphological operations may be applied.

  • "A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added." (Gleason 1955:59)

Reference

Gleason, H. Allan. 1955. An introduction to descriptive linguistics. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Other languages

German Stamm

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