GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — morphological - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? English morphological From morphology + -ical.
Pronunciation
Adjective
morphological (not comparable)
- Of, or pertaining to, morphology.
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 5:In much the same way, morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that van and can have the respective plural forms vans and cans, but that the plural of man is men and not *mans. [...]
2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library[1], archived from the original on 14 January 2025, page 3:Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word?
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
|