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allomorph: a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"; any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite"

morpheme collapse: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

paradigm collapse: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"; systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

affixation collapse: formation of a word by means of an affix; the result of adding an affix to a root word

inflection collapse: deviation from a straight or normal course; a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

affix collapse: a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form; attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem"; attach to; "affix the seal here"

morphology collapse: the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants; the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms; the admissible arrangement of sounds in words; studies of the rules for forming admissible words

suffix collapse: an affix that is added at the end of the word; attach a suffix to; "suffix words"

infix collapse: an affix that is inserted inside the word; attach a morpheme into a stem word

prefix collapse: an affix that is added in front of the word; attach a prefix to; "prefixed words"

formative collapse: minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function; forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"; capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"; susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"

declension collapse: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"; the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

conjugation collapse: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms; the complete set of inflected forms of a verb; the inflection of verbs

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

derivation collapse: the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin; drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation; drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body; a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions; the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation"; (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do'

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