Supplementary material for
"An Introduction to Word Grammar" by Richard Hudson
23 April 2010
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Section 6.7
Morphology and lexical relations
Summary
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Grammar
consists of
..............................
, which handles patterns within a word, and
..............................
, which deals with the relations between the words in a sentence.
Word structure consists of
..............................
, which include indivisible
..............................
(which can be further classified as
roots
,
prefixes
and
suffixes
) and more complex
..............................
.
In terms of notation, forms are distinguished from words by
..............................
: {...}.
Morphological changes are best handled in terms of
..............................
relations rather than by realization rules applying directly to morphs.
Morphological structure is related not only to
..............................
(variations on a single
..............................
) but also to
..............................
relations
between distinct
..............................
.
Entry point for the
WG Encyclopedia
: Morphology
Wikipedia links
Morphology (linguistics)
Lexicon
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