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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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