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• Back formation
  ...n''' is a type of [[word formation]] in which a word is assumed to have a morphological structure (for instance, a [[root]] and an [[affix]]) that it did not origi The process can be schematically represented as follows:
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• Morphologization
  ...ch previously belonged to a different domain of grammar become part of the morphological system of a language. ...ical processes and syntactic structures [...] become properly an aspect of morphological, rather than phonological or syntactic, organization" (Fox 1995: 102). As p
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• Host
  ...sed as a synonym of [[base]], i.e. as 'host of an affix or a morphological process'.
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• Conversion
  In morphology, '''conversion''' is a process which derives words without changing the phonological shape of the [[base]] Other terms for this process are: [[null affixation]], [[zero-derivation]], [[hypostasis]], [[functional
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• Nominalization
  ...tion process by which a noun is formed usually by means of affixation. The process of nominalization has played an important role in the development of genera * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Umlaut
  ...fronted due to (a) a following front vowel, or (b) a specific morpheme or morphological class. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Preposition incorporation
  '''Preposition Incorporation''' is a process by which applied [[verbs]] are generated in Baker's (1988) [[incorporation] * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Parasynthesis
  '''Parasynthesis''' is a [[word formation]] process by means of which a [[discontinuous affix]] or [[circumfix]] is added to a * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Productivity
  ...y regular and actively used in the creation of new words, one regards this process as being productive. Productive word formation is opposed to unproductive w * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Base (in morphology)
  ...a bigger unit to which an [[affix]] attaches or to which a [[morphological process]] applies. Spencer, Andrew. 1991. ''Morphological theory.'' Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Mutation
  '''Mutation''' is a process by which a new [[word]] is formed without [[affixation]], but simply by a c * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Inheritance
  '''Inheritance''' is a process in which a category 'inherits' some feature of a lower category. <br /> * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Lexical integrity
  ...he most important properties of words, viz. the property that no syntactic process is allowed to refer to parts of a word. * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Internalization
  '''Internalization''' is a [[process]] by which the [[external argument]] of the [[base]] becomes the [[internal * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Binary Branching Constraint
  ...is a constraint on concatenative [[word formation]] which says that in the process of [[word formation]] only two morphemes can be concatenated at the same ti *Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory.'' Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Exaptation
  '''Exaptation''' is a diachronic process whereby morphological material that has become functionless is used for some new function that is
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• Blocking
  '''Blocking''' is a process assumed in Aronoff (1976) by which the existence of one word, which is list *Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory.'' Oxford: Blackwell.
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• Derivation (morphology)
  ...s to a part of [[morphology]] that is characterized by relatively concrete morphological meanings, potential semantic irregularity, restrictions in applicability, a '''Derivation''' is a one of the major types of morphological operation by which new words are formed by adding an affix to a [[base]].
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• Tier conflation
  '''Tier Conflation''' is a process by which multilinear representations are linearized. For the [[Arabic]] for * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Causative
  ...nterpart, with the addition of an active [[participant]] which causes that process to occur.
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• Recursion
  '''Recursion''' is a process or result of elements recurring in a structure. Recursion allows structure * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Transfer (morphology)
  '''Transfer''' is a process proposed in Clements (1985) to account for [[reduplication]]. Clements assu * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Analogy
  '''Analogy''' refers to a diachronic process which changes words after the model of other forms. ...ble from the accusative of u-stems (e.g. sunum), although their underlying morphological structure was different: ''fot-um'' vs. ''sun-u-m''. If one assumes that th
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• Ablaut
  '''Ablaut''' is a process by which an inflected form of a word is formed by changing the vowel of the * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Verb raising
  * Bierwisch, M. 1990. ''Verb cluster formation as a morphological process,'' Yearbook of Morphology,
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• Reduplication
  Reduplication is a [[word formation]] process by which some part of a base (= a [[segment]], [[syllable]], [[morpheme]]) * Spencer, A. 1991. ''Morphological Theory,'' Blackwell, Oxford.
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• Tenses of English
  ...ation “untenable and synchronically inadequate”, as ''will'' has lost both morphological substance (it may be reduced to '''ll'') and semantic substance (since it n ...erpretation of ''will'' as a future tense marker. ''Will'' has undergone a process of [[grammaticalization]], during which a new grammatical category has deve
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• Boris Isaakovič Jarcho
  ...e function to support the exact and „objective“ analysis of the underlying morphological categories. In this respect – according to Jarcho – it is possible and ...d as a pioneer in this field. He assumed the history of literature to be a process which can be mathematically described. In his study of the frequency of act
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