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semantics

A branch of linguistics that studies words meanings and relations between them in the lexicon.

suffix

A type of affix placed after the root morpheme.

syntagmatic perspective

studies how the choice of a word form depends on the word's relation to other words in the sentence.

syntax

A branch of linguistics that studies how words combine together in a sentence.