Linguistical Terms - Statistics

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how a verb changes to show a different person, tense, number or mood (I, you sg, he/she/it) Conjugation
80%
The inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. (-s) Declension
35%
The use of taking two morphemes to make a new word ie airport or sellout Compounding
31%
The meaning of words Semantics
24%
Building blocks of words Morphemes
21%
Kick the bucket Idiom
17%
green/greener (grammatical variant) Inflection
16%
What a sentence is about Subject
16%
Tortilla, Cliche Loanwords
13%
Easy peasy Reduplication
7%
Set of sounds that represent the same thign Phoneme
6%
What you say about the subject Predicate
6%
Relisations of the same morpheme Allomorphs
5%
Creates a new word Derivation
5%
Editor to edit Back formation
3%
/s/ is used in many places to indicate plural whereas /en/ is not so frequent Productivity
3%
high morpheme:word Synthetic
3%
Low morpheme:word Analytic
2%
The creation of a new word form an already used word in a differnt word form ie Down ADV > Down V Conversion
2%
Expressed via a preposition Indirect object
2%
Mouse to mice Abault
1%
Brunch and sci fi Blends
1%
Clark Kent and Superman (th) and (t) Complementary
1%
High exponent:mopoheme eg 'were' is 3 components(To Be, Past tense, Pl) Fusional
1%
Needs more words after the verb Transitive verb
1%
Wisdom Abstract singular noun
0%
Low exponent:morpheme Agglutantive
0%
Consonant clusters Alphabetic Principle
0%
MODAL - To be, DO - support, BE - passive (was sung), progressive (is singing), HAVE - perfect (has sung) Auxillary Verbs
0%
Combine two characters, one to suggest meaning and one to suggest sound Chinese way
0%
It- the form to be - X - that/who - Y Cleft sentences
0%
Can be entirely replaced Consituent
0%
Who/What did X? Consituent Test
0%
Putting constituent in first position to change emphasis Dislocation
0%
Swearword Endocentric
0%
Derived from a name Eponyms
0%
Downmarket Exocentric
0%
Japanese (r) (l) Free variation
0%
Meaning you can't predict and must be learned Lexical item
0%
Traffic Mass noun
0%
Test to see if two things are in parallel distribution Minimal Pair Test
0%
Tooth - teeth Mutated plural
0%
Forms which have common sematic distinctiveness and an identical phonemic form in all their occurances constitute a single morpheme Nida's Principle
0%
Third, final, left Non-scalar adjectives
0%
Just a word Orthographic word
0%
Trousers or scissors Pairs
0%
Pig and Big Parallel
0%
The symbols that are easy to represent iconically Rebus Principle
0%
Clothes, odds Sets
0%
Sheep, Chinese, Series Zero plurals
0%
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