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  • ...''deceive'', we can isolate the prefixes ''re-, con''- and ''de''- and the bound morpheme ''ceive''. Only Halle (1973) calls ''ceive'' the root.
    2 KB (238 words) - 17:41, 21 February 2009
  • An '''affix''' is a [[formative]] attached to a [[stem]]. Affixes, like [[stem|stems]], are parts of the [[grammatical word]] (i.e. they are parts of the ...phoneme system. Affixes are usually shorter than stems, are phonologically bound, have more abstract meaning than stems and occur in a fixed order (but see
    8 KB (1,138 words) - 12:47, 25 June 2007
  • ...never had the '-i' plural-suffix. Thus the phonological rule which changed stem-vowels from back to front in the context of the affixal front-vowel ''i'', ...ch adverb-forming suffix ''-ment'', which has its origin in the Latin noun stem ''ment-'' 'mind' (Joseph 2003:472f.). This is a clear instance of the path
    2 KB (343 words) - 16:21, 29 October 2007
  • ...on-specific/indefinite and a specific/definite marker. These markers often stem from very different sources (numerals and demonstratives) and need not be s Formal expression is irrelevant, articles can be free, bound, or marked by suprasegmental markers such as tone.
    2 KB (263 words) - 17:03, 20 September 2014
  • ...sentences with ''be'' (''John is gone'') and ''have'' (''I have the enemy bound''). Such resultative sentences express states and/or possession over states ...present of all verbs (except ''be'' and ''have'') are homophonous with the stem of the verb (e. g. ''forget''), except in the third person singular (e. g.
    26 KB (4,208 words) - 16:34, 27 July 2014