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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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morpheme
Language; Linguistics
In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. In spoken language, morphemes are composed of phonemes, the smallest ...
inflection
Language; Linguistics
In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) to reflect grammatical (that is, relational) information, such as gender, ...
affix
Language; Linguistics
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, ...
derivation
Language; Linguistics
A derivation in linguistics is the process of changing the meaning and/or lexical class of a lexeme by adding a morpheme.
root
Language; Linguistics
The base from of a word that cannot further be analyzed without total lass of identity.
stem
Language; Linguistics
Any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.
bound morpheme
Language; Linguistics
An element of meaning which is structurally dependent on the world it is added to, e.g. the plural morpheme in “dog’s”.
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