Morphological typology classifies languages based on how they structure words. It examines the relationship between morphemes, the smallest meaningful units,…
Explore morpheme types, the smallest meaningful units in language. Learn about free vs. bound, derivational vs. inflectional morphemes, and their…
Grammatical gender is a system of noun classification found in many languages. It assigns nouns to categories like masculine, feminine,…
A closed class refers to a set of words in a language that are relatively fixed and rarely add new…
A circumfix is a type of affix that surrounds the root of a word, consisting of two parts, one preceding…
A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme,…
Agglutinative languages combine morphemes, each with a single grammatical meaning, into long words. This contrasts with isolating and fusional languages,…