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Morphology - Coggle Diagram
Morphology
Word
Whatever corresponds to a contiguos sequence of letters
Morphological relationships among words
Inflection
The relationship between word-forms of a lexeme
Derivation
The relationship between lexemes of a word family
Lexeme
Abstract entities that can be thought of as sets of word-forms
Word-form
Concrete in that they can be pronounced and used in texts. Every word-form belongs to one lexeme
The set of word-forms that belong to a lexeme is called a paradigm
A set of related lexemes is called a Word Family
Compounding
Words that belong to two or more Word Families simultaneously
Citation Form
A purely practical convention with no theoretical significance
Morphemes
Individually meaningful parts that words can be segmented into
The smallest meaningul constitutents of a linguistic expression
Mono-morphemic
Words that cannot be segmented into several morphemes
Grammatical Functions
Morphemes that can have multiple kinds of meanings (concrete or abstract)
Allomorphs
Morphemes that may have different shapes under different circumstances
Affixes
Short morphemes with abstract meanings
Base
The part of a word that an affix is attached to
Root
A base that cannot be analyzed any further into constituent morphemes
Bound Root
Roots that occur only in compounds
Suffixes
Affixes that follow the main part of the word
Prefixes
Affixes that precede the main part of the word
Formal Operations
Non-concatenative
Operations by which complex words can be derived from bases
Morphological Patterns
The results of concatenative and non-concatenative processes
Base Modification / Alternation
A part of the base is modified by a phonological change of some kind
Transfixation
Interdigitation of vowel and consonant morphemes
Reduplication
Part of, or the complete base is copied and attached to the base
Duplifxes
Elements attached to the base that consist of both copied segments and fixed segments
Subtraction
The signaling of a morphological relationship by deleating one or more segments from the base
Conversion
The form of the base remains unaltered