The tendency of an already existent word to preclude the derivation of another word that would have the same meaning.
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C
A morpheme that consists of the simultaneous attachment of a prefix and a suffix.
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D
Lexeme formation process that either changes syntactic category or adds substantial meaning, or both.
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E
Having a head that determines the category and semantic type of a compound.
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F
One of the four traditional classifications of morphological systems. In this kinid of system, words are complex but not easily segmentable into distinct morphemes.
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G
A morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a sentence
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H
Aspectual marking that designates that an action is usually or characteristically done.
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I
In linguistic typology, a type of universal that implies that if one linguistic characteristic is found in a language, another is expected to occur as well.
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J
The traditional name for the inflectional paradigm of a verb.
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K
A morphological process in which a word is formed by subtracting a piece, usually an affix, from a word which is or appears to be complex, e.g., to ush from 'usher'
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L
Families of words that differ only in their grammatical endings or grammatical forms.
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M
The smallest meaningful part of a word.
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N
An inflectional distinction that marks how many entities there are.
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O
The spelling system of a language.
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P
A grid or table consisting of all of the different inflectional forms of a particular lexeme or class of lexemes.
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Q
A type of aspect denoting the number of times or the frequency with which an action is done.
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R
A morphological process whereby words are formed by repeating all or part of their base.
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S
An instance in which one or more of the inflected forms of a lexeme are built on a base that bears no relationship to the base of other members of the paradigm, e.g., go-went.
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T
A kind of morphological process in which words are derived by means of arranging morphemes according to meaningful patterns of consonants and vowels or templates. Also called root and pattern.
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U
The basic mental representation of a morpheme from which various allomorphs can be derived via phonological rule.
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V
The number of arguments selected by a verb.
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W
Differently inflected forms that belong to the same lexeme. For example, walks, walking, walk, and walked are all word forms that belong to the same lexeme
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X
The association of inflectional meanings with inflectional forms.
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Linguistic subfield that attempts to classify languages according to kinds of structures, and to find correlations between structures and genetic or areal characteristics.
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Z
An analysis of conversion in which a change of part of speech or semantic category is effected by a phonologically null affix.
