November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 57m
English
Content preview from What is Morphology?, 3rd Edition
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Glossary
- ablaut
- See apophony.
- absolutive
- In ergative case systems, the case associated with the object of a transitive verb or the subject of an intransitive one.
- accusative
- The morphological case of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and participles that occupy the position of object to the verb or some prepositions. Nouns and pronouns are typically assumed to receive accusative case by government, while adjectives and participles receive it by agreement with the noun.
- acronym
- A word derived by taking the initial letter of all or most words in a string and pronouncing them together, e.g., scuba < self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
- active
- See voice.
- adjective
- A word that can function as the head of an adjective phrase (AdjP). Adjectives qualify or describe the referents of nouns. Examples of adjectives include large, quiet, indispensable, and ambiguous.
- adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a preposition, or a larger unit such as a phrase or sentence. It often expresses some relation of manner or quality, time, or degree. Examples include quickly, often, carefully, soon, and very.
- affix
- A bound morpheme that attaches to a root or stem to form a new lexeme (derived form) or an inflected form or stem of an existing lexeme.
- agglutinative
- Adjective applied to languages or to morphology characterized by words containing several morphemes, of which one belongs to a lexical category and the others are clearly identifiable affixes, each with a ...
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