Nominal Inflectional Morphology | Verbal Inflectional Morphology | Other Inflectional Morphology | Derivational Morphemes | Inflectional vs. Derivational |
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What is nominative and accusative?
These are the names of the inflectional categories that mark the subject and the object of the clause, respectively.
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What is tense?
This inflectional category indicates the verb's temporal location.
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What are the comparative and the superlative?
These inflectional categories appear on gradable adjectives.
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What is 'thinker'?
This is the result of deriving an agent noun from the word 'think'.
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What is derivation?
This morphological category is not relevant to the syntax.
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What is case?
This inflectional category marks a noun phrase's role in the sentence.
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What is perfective and imperfective?
This distinction marks whether an event is completed or not.
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What is the passive?
This inflectional morpheme indicates that the semantic object is the syntactic subject.
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What are nouns?
Most languages have more derivational morphemes that derive words of this part of speech.
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What is derivation?
This morphological category is closer to the stem.
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What is dative and genitive?
These are the names of the inflectional categories that mark the indirect object and possessors, respectively.
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What is mood?
This is the inflectional category that marks whether an event actually happened, or whether it is, for example, desired, commanded, predicted, or possible.
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What is polarity?
This inflectional category marks whether a clause is positive or negative.
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What is 'serenity'?
This is the result of deriving a quality noun from the word 'serene'.
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What is derivation?
This morphological category is not obligatorily expressed.
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What is paucal?
This is the name of the inflectional morpheme that marks for when there are few in number.
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What is aspect?
This is the inflectional category marking the internal time structure of an event.
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What are dependent verb forms?
This class of word form is only found in embedded clauses.
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What is 'edible'?
This is the result of deriving a facilitative adjective from the word 'eat.'
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What is inflection?
This morphological category maintains the same basic concept as the base.
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What is ablative?
This is the name of the inflectional morpheme that marks for movement away from a noun.
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What is tense, aspect, and mood?
These three categories are sometimes all subsumed into one, because some possible combinations are often missing in different languages.
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What are person and number?
These inflectional categories often appear on both nouns and verbs.
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What is de-?
(As in deadjectival, denominal, deverbal)
In words for classifying derivational morphemes, this prefix is added to the name of the part of speech it requires as stem.
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What is inflection?
This morphological category cannot be repeated.
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