A grammatical morpheme that must be attached to a host word of an appropriate kind.
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Can words be formed by deriving from just prefix(es) and suffix(es) with no actual root morpheme between?
I was just looking at a Zulu word entry in Wiktionary that implied it was made from a prefix and a suffix, but there was nothing between them.
Now this could just be sloppy editing of Wiktionary but ...
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Which prefixing language has the most speakers?
Most if not all national or widely spoken languages with an inflecting or agglutinating typology do all of their inflecting at the end of the word. These are called "suffixing languages".
This is ...
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Specifically in terms of nepomorpha, nepidae and further taxonomic classifications
I believe that the meaning of morpha is "form, like, kind". But where does the nepo prefix originate from? I seem to get a lot of terms like 'nepotism' in my searches, but I wonder how purely aquatic ...
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What is the function of “-ter” in words “laughter” and “daughter”?
Because there exists a word "laugh" but "*daugh", while the forms are alike to each other.
I can't find the function of the morpheme "-ter" here, which is maybe irrelevant to the "-ter" in "enter" or ...
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Is there any language that observe root changes in response to the addition of affixes?
If yes, what are the examples? What change patterns are exhibited?
*modified from Area51
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What are the criteria that distinguish clitics/particles from affixes?
This question inspired me to finally ask a question that has been bothering me for years: how does one distinguish clitics and/or particles from affixes, especially when those clitics are ...
