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  2. Affix grammar - Wikipedia

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    An affix grammar is a two-level grammar formalism used to describe the syntax of languages, mainly computer languages, using an approach based on how natural language ...

  3. Morphological typology - Wikipedia

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    Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures. The field organizes languages on the basis of how those languages form words by combining morphemes.

  4. Deflexion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Complete loss of the original subset of affixes combined with a development towards allomorphy and new morphology is associated in particular with creolization, i.e. the formation of pidgins and creole languages. [1] [2] Directly related to deflexion is the languages becoming less synthetic and more analytic in nature. However, the ways in ...

  5. Affix grammar over a finite lattice - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, the affix grammars over a finite lattice (AGFL) formalism is a notation for context-free grammars with finite set-valued features, acceptable to linguists of many different schools. The AGFL-project aims at the development of a technology for Natural language processing available under the GNU GPL .

  6. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    For many, case-affixes are considered special-clitics (i.e. phrasal-affixes, see Anderson 2005 [26]) because they have a singular fixed position within the phrase. For Bardi , the case marker usually appears on the first phrasal constituent [ 27 ] while the opposite is the case for Wangkatja (i.e. the case marker is attracted to the rightmost ...

  7. Word stem - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. Typically, a stem remains unmodified during inflection with few exceptions due to apophony (for example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city"); in English, sing, sang, and sung, where it can be modified according to morphological rules or peculiarities, such as sandhi).

  8. Affix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as un- , -ation , anti- , pre- etc., introduce a semantic change to the word they are attached to.

  9. Classifier (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A classifier (abbreviated clf [1] or cl) is a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to "classify" a noun depending on some characteristics (e.g. humanness, animacy, sex, shape, social status) of its referent.