Main Glossary

A special case of conversion which preserves the sounds, but changes the stress.

A new word based on a name.

A morpheme that can function as a word by itself.

The parts of speech that are relatively low in meaning (preposition, conjunction, article, interjection, pronoun).

An inflected form of a noun that marks the noun as being masculine, feminine or neuter.

Adjectifs and adverbs that have three forms that contrast on the dimension of comparison.

Lexical items that are identical in form, but belong to different parts of speech.

A verbal category that expresses the speaker's will as a command or a request.

A verbal category that represents an event as a real fact.

A suffix that is used to create another form of the same word. Its presence is determined by the grammatical context.