Main Glossary

An inflected form that marks the word as the object of the sentence.

A special type of shortening which takes the first sound from each of several words and makes a new word from those initial sounds.

A part of speech that describes properties of nouns.

A part of speech that describes properties of verbs.

A bound morpheme that specifies a certain aspect of the situation evoked by the root morpheme.

A phonetic variant of a morpheme.

A part of speech that is used to link nouns to the broader context of speech.

A verbal category that specifies the way of viewing the internal temporal structure denoted by a verb (simple, progressive, perfect).

Creation of a new word by removal of a suffix.

Any form to which any derivational suffixes can be added.