morphology

a vowel alternation that marks a grammatical contrast ie mouse/mice

A morpheme that does not belong to a lexical category and is always bound eg ing or un

the result of one category being characterized by the omission of function words and inflectional affixes and by syntactic comprehension deficits

variants of morpheme

a word formation process that creates a new word by removing a real or supposed affix from another word in the language

the form to which an affix is added

a word that is created from parts of two already existing terms

a morpheme that must be attached to another element

a morphological category that encodes information about an element's grammatical role

a group of affixes that in english often trigger changes in the consonant or vowel segments of the base and may affect the assignment of stress

a group of affixes that tend to be phonologically neutral in english having no effect on the segmental makeup of the base or on stress assignment

a word formation process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables

a morpheme that is like a word in terms of its meaning and function but is unable to stand alone as an independent form for phonological reasons

a word that contains two or more morphemes

the combination of lexical categories to form a larger word

a term used for morphological process that builds word structure by assembling morphemes in an additive linear fashion

a word formation process that assigns an already existing word to anew syntactic category

an affixational process that forms a word with a meaning and or category distinct from that of its base

a clitic that attaches to the end of a word

a word created from a name

a morpheme that can be a word by itself

the morpheme that determines the category of the entire word

the element to which clitics are attached

an affix that occurs without its base

the modification of a word's form to indicate the grammatical subclass to which it belongs

an abbreviation created by pronouncing a series of letters like PEI as letters rather than words

a process that substitutes one non morphemic segment for another to mark a grammatical contrast

the word level syntactic categories noun(N) verb (V) adjective(A), and preposition(P)

a speakers mental dictionary which contains information in the words of a language

the smallest unit of language that carries information about the meaning or function

the system of categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation

a morphological process that duplicates part of the base to which it applies

a morphological process that marks a grammatical contrast by replacing part of a morpheme

an affix that is attached to the front of its base

a clitic that attaches to the beginning of a word

the relative freedom with which affixes can combine with bases of the appropriate category

the morpheme in a word that carries the major component of the word's meaning and belongs to a lexical category

a morphological process that duplicates all or part of the base to which it applies

a morphological process that duplicates the entire word

a word that consists of a single morpheme

the base to which an inflectional affix is added

an affix that is attached to the end of its base

a morphological process that marks a grammatical contrast by replacing a morpheme with an entirely different morpheme

a diagram depicting the internal organization of a linguistic unit such as a word phrase or sentence

a phonological change in germanic languages that results in the fronting of a vowel in the root under the influence of a front vowel in a suffix

the creation of a word from scratch sometimes with the help of a computer

morphology in which most complex words are formed from a base that can itself be a word

a compound whose rightmost component in english identifies the general class to which the meaning of the entire word belongs

a compound whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of its parts