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• Morphological object
  ...on '[[word]]', viz. the conception of word as an entity constructed out of morphological atoms (= [[morphemes]]) by ([[concatenative]]) processes of [[affixation]] [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Morphological+object&lemmacode=568 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Parallel morphology
  ...yntax. The word-like properties of construct state nominals are due to the morphological principle of [[percolation]] that can apply to constructions which are form * Shibatani, K. & T. Kageyana 1988. ''Word Formation in a Modular Theory of Grammar: Postsyntactic Compounds in Japane
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• Back formation
  ...ge has a productive affix with the same phonological form as a part of the word that underwent back formation. * Initial morphological structure: ('''''abcdef''''')_stem; the language also has a produ
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• Bound morpheme
  ...subpart of a word, i.e. an element which cannot function as an independent word or free morpheme. ...an [[affix]] but a [[root]] (since [[affix]]es may attach to it, forming a word) also cannot occur freely in syntax and may be called a bound morpheme for
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• Word-form
  ...any orthographies. There is a large literature about the definition of the word-form, which is difficult to summarize here. *[[grammatical word]] (this term is probably more common in English than ''word-form'')
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• Actual word
  ...the speakers and can be retrieved from there, as opposed to a [[potential word]], which could be used, but has to be formed on the fly by speakers (see Ar ...t speakers, while ''mandatoriness'' is only a potential, but not an actual word for most speakers.
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• Accidental gap
  ...' is a non-existing word which is expected to exist given the hypothesized morphological rules of a particular language. *Allen, M.R. 1978. Morphological Investigations, PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.
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• Lexeme (morphology)
  ...lected forms, which are words themselves, are still variants of one single word. ...f the Russian adjective ''bol'soj'' 'large, big, grand', we find that this word has a variety of forms:
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• Overgeneration
  '''Overgeneration''' is a property of ([[word formation rule|word formation]]) rules which entails that they are able to generate entities wh * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
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• Blocking
  ...e rise to a complex word having the same semantics as the already existing word. *Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar.'' Cambridge, Mass: MIT-press.
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• Non-linear morphology
  ...ation. These levels of representation are called (morphological) tiers or (morphological) planes. McCarthy (1979, 1981) has shown that this framework provides the n * McCarthy, J. and A. Prince 1990. ''Foot and word in prosodic morphology: the Arabic broken plural,'' Natural language and li
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• Word
  ...curs between two spaces in the spelling or the linguist's description (= [[word-form]]). Words are [[Morphology|morphological]] objects which may but need not be the output of processes of [[affixation
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• Word-based morphology
  ...lar [[prefix]]ation processes, since the base ''ceive'' is not an existing word which belongs to a major lexical category. *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Word-based+morphology&lemmacode=94 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Word formation rule
  ...gically complex [[word]]s are formed out of (free and/or bound) morphemes. Word formation rules are necessary in theories which assume that the [[lexicon]] *[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Word+Formation+Rule&lemmacode=98 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Idiosyncrasy
  ...o a phonological rule), or (c) morphologically (by being an exception to a word formation rule). * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
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• Permanent lexicon
  ...speaker has been observed to use (in ordinary speech). Hence, [[potential word]]s, which are actually [[accidental gap]]s, are not stored in the permanent * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Theme vowel
  ...which indicates which is the declensional or conjugational class that a [[word]] belongs to. ...ôus+a+y'' (nom.pl.) 'Muse', ''log+o+n'' (acc.sg.), ''log+o+y'' (nom.pl.) 'word'. Another term is 'extension vowel'.
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• Polysynthetic language
  ...ration]]. Hence a polysynthetic language is a language in which a single [[word]] can encode a [[meaning]] which would require a fairly elaborate sentence Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory''. Blackwell: Oxford. <br>
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• Head
  In [[:category:syntax|syntax]], the '''head''' of a [[phrase]] is the [[word]] that determines the major distributional properties of the phrase. The ot .... The head of a word is either the rightmost or the leftmost morpheme of a word. This generalization lies at the heart of the so-called [[Righthand Head Ru
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• Derivation (morphology)
  ...s to a part of [[morphology]] that is characterized by relatively concrete morphological meanings, potential semantic irregularity, restrictions in applicability, a '''Derivation''' is a one of the major types of morphological operation by which new words are formed by adding an affix to a [[base]].
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• Back-formation
  ...namely the [[base]], did not previously exist. If this new base becomes a word of the language, it is called a back-formation. ...e literature, the existence of back-formation is taken as evidence for a [[word-based morphology]].
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• Base (in morphology)
  ...'''base''' is a bigger unit to which an [[affix]] attaches or to which a [[morphological process]] applies. ...' meaning of a word. The term ''stem'' will be reserved for that part of a word to which inflectional affixes are added, and ''base'' for that part to whic
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• Lexical integrity
  .... the property that no syntactic process is allowed to refer to parts of a word. * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Polysemy
  '''Polysemy''' is the phenomenon that a [[word]] acquires new usages which, over time, are likely to become more like new The phenomenon that a word has several different meanings which are closely related to each other. The
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• Internalization
  ...rgument]] of the [[base]] becomes the [[internal argument]] of the derived word. Internalization has two stages. First, the addition of a new external argu * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Productivity
  ...as being productive. Productive word formation is opposed to unproductive word formation. * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Fusional morphology
  ...ogy''' (also called inflectional morphology) is a term which is used for a morphological system in which one morpheme, usually an inflectional affix, expresses seve ...nts '3rd person possessive' and 'plural' are fused together in the English word ''their'', while Turkish uses two morphemes for these components: ''evlerid
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• Bracket Erasure Convention
  ...In Kiparsky's view this inertness extends to morphological processes, and word formation rules therefore do not have access to the internal structure of w *Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory.'' Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Endocentric compound
  * Allen, M.R. 1978. ''Morphological Investigations,'' PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Binary Branching Constraint
  ...nt on concatenative [[word formation]] which says that in the process of [[word formation]] only two morphemes can be concatenated at the same time. *Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory.'' Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Free morpheme
  The English word ''dog'' is a free morpheme. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Lexical relatedness
  ...n runs as follows. He assigns the structure [hydro [electric+ity]] to this word, and due to the principle of Lexical Relatedness he can relate </nowiki>''h
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• Diacritic feature
  * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass. * Halle, M. 1973. ''Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation,'' Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
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• Bracketing paradox
  ...keting paradox''' is a situation in which the morphological structure of a word which one would like to propose for semantic reasons does not correspond to ...ver, this structure raises a problem of interpretation. The meaning of the word ''unhappier'' can be paraphrased as 'more not happy', i.e. with more having
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• Host
  In ''That's good'', the host of the clitic '''s'' is the word ''that''. ...so sometimes used as a synonym of [[base]], i.e. as 'host of an affix or a morphological process'.
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• Morphologization
  ...ch previously belonged to a different domain of grammar become part of the morphological system of a language. ...ical processes and syntactic structures [...] become properly an aspect of morphological, rather than phonological or syntactic, organization" (Fox 1995: 102). As p
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• Agglutinating language
  '''Agglutinating language''' is a language which has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each [[morpheme ...viation]]s from it. This traditional classification of languages into four morphological groups has been criticized for being both incoherent and useless.
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• Morphological component
  ...The first approach (e.g. Halle 1973, Halle &amp; Vergnaud 1987) proposes a morphological component which is autonomous from syntax as well as phonology. In the seco [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Morphological+component&lemmacode=567 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Latinate affix
  * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Adjacency Condition
  ...d by a morphological rule. Intuitively, the Adjacency Condition prevents a word formation rule from looking into the entire derivational history of morphol *Allen, M.R. 1978. Morphological Investigations, PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.
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• Lexicon
  ...ains information about (a) the [[pronunciation]], (b) the [[meaning]], (c) morphological properties, and (d) syntactic properties of its entries. Furthermore, the l ...more complex. Next to a list of underived lexical entries, it contains a [[word formation]] component. Hence, in this approach morphology is an integrated
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• Mixed category
  ...a '''mixed category''' is a construction which combines the syntactic and morphological ...distinct categories, such as noun and verb, while being headed by a single word.
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• Function composition
  ...head satisfies a [[theta-role]] of the [[head]]. The non-head of a complex word headed by an affix, however, does not satisfy a theta-role of the affix; ra * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• First Sister Principle
  ...t sister position means that the non-head of the verbal compound must be a word which can appear immediately after the verb in a corresponding verb phrase) * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Root
  A '''root''' is a part of a [[word]] with [[lexical meaning]] that cannot be broken down further. ''Root'' is If we take the form ''disagreement'', this word contains the basic free morpheme ''agree'' and the two bound morphemes (or
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• Morpholexical rule
  ...The main motivation for this type of rule is that there are cases in which word formation rules need to have access to derived allomorphs before the phonol ...syllabic, the precise shape of the allomorph must be known at the time the morphological rule of reduplication applies.
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• Level
  ...rst introduced in Allen (1978) to express the idea that different types of word formation rules and phonological rules take place in linearly ordered block * Allen, M.R. 1978. ''Morphological Investigations,'' PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.
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• Parasynthesis
  '''Parasynthesis''' is a [[word formation]] process by means of which a [[discontinuous affix]] or [[circum * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Truncation
  '''Truncation''' is a morphological [[operation]] by which one [[morpheme]] is deleted if it is internal to ano ...ding in -''ee'' lack the verbal suffix -''ate'', and if it is assumed that word formation rules can only take words as their base these forms are problemat
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• Readjustment rule
  ...rule proposed by Chomsky &amp; Halle (1968) to modify the output of the [[word formation rule]]s or the output of the syntactic rules before these structu * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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