Linguistic morphology Linguistic morphology An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Affix"
In linguistics, agglutination is the morphological process of adding affixes to the base of a word. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. These languages are often contrasted with fusional languages and isolating languages. However, both fusional and isolating languages may use agglutination in the most often-used constructs, and use agglutination heavily in certain contexts, such as word derivation. This is the case in English, which is an isolating language, but has an agglutinated plural marker -(e)s and derived words such as shame·less·ness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agglutination"
In linguistics an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The meaning remains the same, while the sound can vary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allomorph"
Alpha Curio Bet is a theory put forward in the writings and lectures of the Emin Society, an esoteric school of thought. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpha Curio Bet"
In linguistics, Alternation is when a set of morphosyntactic properties is phonologically expressed in two or more different ways in different words. For example: ...more on Wikipedia about "Alternation (linguistics)"
In linguistics, apophony (also ablaut, gradation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection) is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional). ...more on Wikipedia about "Apophony"
In linguistics, the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Greek (the augment survives and has been generalised in Modern Greek), Armenian, and the Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the perfect, preterite, or aorist tenses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augment (linguistics)"
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In etymology, the process of back-formation is the creation of a neologism by reinterpreting an earlier word as a compound and removing the affixes, or more generally, by trying to reconstruct an original form from any kind of derived form (including abbreviations or inflected forms). The resulting new word is also called a back-formation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Back-formation"
A bahuvrihi, or bahuvrihi compound, is a particular kind of compound word that refers to something that is not specified by any of its parts by themselves, especially a compound that refers to a possessor of an object specified. For instance, a sabertooth is neither a saber nor a tooth: it is a smilodon, an extinct feline with saber-like fangs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bahuvrihi"
Bound morphemes are morphemes that can only occur when attached to root morphemes. Affixes are bound morphemes. Common English bound morphemes include: -ing, -ed, -er, and pre-. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bound morpheme"
In linguistics, broken plurals is a grammatical phenomenon typical in many Semitic languages of the Middle East and Ethiopia in which a singular noun is "broken" to form a plural by having its root consonant embedded in a different "frame", rather than by merely adding a prefix or suffix to the original singular noun, as in English. (Example: cat → cats) ...more on Wikipedia about "Broken plural"
A combining form is a form of a word used for combining with other words or other combining forms to make new words. A combining form may conjoin with an independent word (e.g., mini- and skirt), another combining form (e.g., photo- and -graphy) or an affix (e.g., cephal- and
-ic). It is thus distinguished from an affix, which can be added to either a free word or a combining form but not solely to another affix (e.g., Iceland and -ic but not pro- and -ic). It can also be distinguished historically from an affix when it is borrowed from another language in which it is descriptively a word (e.g., the French mal giving English mal- in malodorous) or a combining form (e.g., the Greek kako-, a combining form of kakos, giving the English caco- in cacography). ...more on Wikipedia about "Combining form"
Consonant mutation is the phenomenon in which a consonant in a word is changed according to its morphological and/or syntactic environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consonant mutation"
In linguistics, a cranberry morpheme is a bound morpheme that exists in only one lexeme. Examples in English include twi in twilight, and spick and span in spick-and-span. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cranberry morpheme"
In linguistics, derivation is the process of creating new lexemes from other lexemes, for example, by adding a derivational affix. It is a kind of word formation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Derivation (linguistics)"
A dvandva or copulative or coordinative compound refers to two or more objects that could be connected in sense by the conjunction 'and'. Dvandvas are common in some languages such as Sanskrit, where the term originates, and Japanese, but less common in English (The term is not often found in English dictionaries.). Examples: matara-pitara (Sanskrit for 'mother and father'), yamakawa (Japanese for 'mountains and rivers'), bittersweet and singer-songwriter in English, "tragicomic". ...more on Wikipedia about "Dvandva"
A Dvigu is a type of compound in Sanskrit grammar. Its first constituent is a numeral, in the case of dvigu, itself an example for the type, dvi- "two" (while -gu means cow, the meaning of dvigu being " two cows".) ...more on Wikipedia about "Dvigu"
This planned new article will describe the verb in Gothic parallel to the article West Germanic strong verb. It is subsidiary to the article Germanic verb. ...more on Wikipedia about "East Germanic strong verb"
The Elative is a stage of gradation in the Semitic languages that can be used both for a global maximum (see superlative) and for comparison (see comparative). In Arabic, the elative has a special inflection similar to that of color adjectives, though differing in certain details. To form an elative, the consonants of the adjective's root are placed in the context aCCaC in the masculine singular, CuCCā in the feminine singular, and most commonly CuCaC in the plural. So the adjective kabīr كبير "large, great" is changed to akbar أكبر in the masculine singular elative, and to kubrā كبرى in the feminine singular elative. For the plural, kubar would be expected, but separate masculine plural akābir أكابر and feminine plural kubrayāt كبريات are found as irregular forms. In modern Arabic, the feminine and plural forms of the elative are rarely used, except when the elative word is prefixed with the definite article. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elative (gradation)"
Endocentric has a number of meanings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Endocentric"
Exocentric has a number of meanings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Exocentric" My way is http://www.shortopedia.com
(Exponent (linguistics)) WANT + PAST → wanted ...more on Wikipedia about "Exponent (linguistics)"
In linguistics, free morphemes are morphemes that can stand alone, unlike bound morphemes, which only occur as parts of words. In the English sentence colorless green ideas sleep furiously, for example, color, green, idea, sleep and furious are all free morphemes, whereas -less, -s and -ly are all bound morphemes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free morpheme"
Glossematics is the rigorous study of language at the level of its most basic unit or component which carries meaning, the glosseme. The term was coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall as a neologism combining glossary with mathematics to indicate a formalized system of study. The ultimate goal of the linguist who studies glossemes is the same as that of a physicist who studies atoms, to wit a more perfect understanding of the whole through a thorough study of the structure of the constituent parts. To the greatest extent possible, glossematics seeks to take a tabula rasa approach, constructing an internally consistent framework of axioms and principles with minimal reliance on external terms. It is an abstracting form of structuralism, concerned with how "functives" describe relationships among "terminals" rather than with words themselves. This system, constructed without recourse to any particular language or constructivist modality, seeks to establish a universal standard defining the necessary and sufficient conditions of language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glossematics"
In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). Conjugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, mood, voice, grammatical aspect, or other language-specific factors. All the different forms of the same verb constitute a lexeme and the form of the verb that is conventionally used to represent the canonical form of the verb is a lemma. ...more on Wikipedia about "Grammatical conjugation" www.shortopedia.com , this is it!
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