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2. Bound and free morphemes - Wikipedia

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   Affixes are bound by definition. [5] English language affixes are almost exclusively prefixes or suffixes: pre-in "precaution" and -ment in "shipment". Affixes may be inflectional, indicating how a certain word relates to other words in a larger phrase, or derivational, changing either the part of speech or the actual meaning of a word.

3. Morphological typology - Wikipedia

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   These languages have a high morpheme-to-word ratio, a highly regular morphology, and a tendency for verb forms to include morphemes that refer to several arguments besides the subject (polypersonalism). Another feature of polysynthetic languages is commonly expressed as "the ability to form words that are equivalent to whole sentences in other ...

4. Bracketing (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, particularly linguistic morphology, bracketing is a term of art that refers to how an utterance can be represented as a hierarchical tree of constituent parts. Analysis techniques based on bracketing are used at different levels of grammar, but are particularly associated with morphologically complex words.

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

6. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.

7. Root (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A recent example introduced by the Academy of the Hebrew Language is מדרוג ‎ midrúg ‘rating’, from מדרג ‎ midrág, whose root is ד-ר-ג ‎ √d-r-g ‘grade’." [ 6 ] According to Ghil'ad Zuckermann , "this process is morphologically similar to the production of frequentative (iterative) verbs in Latin , for example: