A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme,…
The benefactive case marks a noun phrase that benefits from an action, indicating 'for whom' or 'for what purpose' an…
The Americanist system, also known as the Americanist tradition, refers to a school of thought in linguistics that emerged in…
An allomorph is a variation of a morpheme that has the same meaning but different phonetic or phonological forms. These…
The allative case is a grammatical case that indicates motion towards a location or destination. It's commonly found in agglutinative…
Agglutinative languages combine morphemes, each with a single grammatical meaning, into long words. This contrasts with isolating and fusional languages,…
Affixation is a morphological process where affixes are attached to a word's root or stem to form a new word…
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.…
An adverbializer is a linguistic tool or process that transforms other word classes, like adjectives or nouns, into adverbs, often…
The absolutive case marks the single argument of a transitive verb or the single argument of an intransitive verb. It's…