enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Morphological typology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_typology

   Sentences in analytic languages are composed of independent root morphemes. Grammatical relations between words are expressed by separate words where they might otherwise be expressed by affixes, which are present to a minimal degree in such languages. There is little to no morphological change in words: they tend to be uninflected.

3. Morpheme - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme

   A zero-morpheme is a type of morpheme that carries semantic meaning but is not represented by auditory phoneme. A word with a zero-morpheme is analyzed as having the morpheme for grammatical purposes, but the morpheme is not realized in speech. They are often represented by /∅/ within glosses. [7] Generally, such morphemes have no visible ...

4. Bound and free morphemes - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_and_free_morphemes

   In linguistics, a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression, while a free morpheme (or unbound morpheme) is one that can stand alone. [1] A bound morpheme is a type of bound form, and a free morpheme is a type of free form. [2]

5. Syntax - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax

   In linguistics, syntax (/ ˈ s ɪ n t æ k s / SIN-taks) [1] [2] is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), [3] agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning ().

6. Isolating language - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language

   A language is said to be more isolating than another if it has a lower morpheme per word ratio. To illustrate the relationship between words and morphemes, the English term "rice" is a single word, consisting of only one morpheme (rice). This word has a 1:1 morpheme per word ratio.

7. Syncretism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism_(linguistics)

   Syncretism is a type of homophony that occurs within a specific paradigm in which the syntax would require separate forms. Accidental homophony does occur in paradigms, however, and linguist Sebastian Bank of the University of Leipzig makes the distinction between accidental homophony and syncretism in paradigms through natural classes. [4]