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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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free morpheme

Language; Linguistics

An element of meaning which takes the form of an independent word.

A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are different forms of the same word. For example, English run, runs, ran and ...

lexicon

Language; Linguistics

Lexicon is usually a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i.e., a dictionary. Lexicon is a word of Greek origin (λεξικόν) meaning vocabulary. When linguists study the ...

grammatical word

Language; Linguistics

Word expressing grammatical meanings, such conjunction, prepositions, articles and pronouns.

lexical word

Language; Linguistics

Word having lexical meanings, i.e. those which refer to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and verbs.

open-class

Language; Linguistics

A word whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs.

blending

Language; Linguistics

A relatively complex form of compounding in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word,or by joining the initial parts of the two ...