Tag: word formation

Fusional Language

Fusional languages merge grammatical information like tense, number, and gender into single…

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Free Morpheme: The Building Blocks of Language

A free morpheme is a word that can stand alone and has…

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Discontinuous Morpheme

A discontinuous morpheme is a morpheme that is split into two or…

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Derivational Affix

A derivational affix is a morpheme added to a word's root or…

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Circumfixation

Circumfixation is a morphological process where a morpheme is attached to a…

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Circumfix

A circumfix is a type of affix that surrounds the root of…

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Bound Morpheme

A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a…

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Agglutinative Language

Agglutinative languages combine morphemes, each with a single grammatical meaning, into long…

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Affixation in Linguistics

Affixation is a morphological process where affixes are attached to a word's…

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Affix (Linguistics)

An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem…

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