Nominal Inflectional Morphology Verbal Inflectional Morphology Other Inflectional Morphology Derivational Morphemes Inflectional vs. Derivational
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What is nominative and accusative?
These are the names of the inflectional categories that mark the subject and the object of the clause, respectively.
100
What is tense?
This inflectional category indicates the verb's temporal location.
100
What are the comparative and the superlative?
These inflectional categories appear on gradable adjectives.
100
What is 'thinker'?
This is the result of deriving an agent noun from the word 'think'.
100
What is derivation?
This morphological category is not relevant to the syntax.
200
What is case?
This inflectional category marks a noun phrase's role in the sentence.
200
What is perfective and imperfective?
This distinction marks whether an event is completed or not.
200
What is the passive?
This inflectional morpheme indicates that the semantic object is the syntactic subject.
200
What are nouns?
Most languages have more derivational morphemes that derive words of this part of speech.
200
What is derivation?
This morphological category is closer to the stem.
300
What is dative and genitive?
These are the names of the inflectional categories that mark the indirect object and possessors, respectively.
300
What is mood?
This is the inflectional category that marks whether an event actually happened, or whether it is, for example, desired, commanded, predicted, or possible.
300
What is polarity?
This inflectional category marks whether a clause is positive or negative.
300
What is 'serenity'?
This is the result of deriving a quality noun from the word 'serene'.
300
What is derivation?
This morphological category is not obligatorily expressed.
400
What is paucal?
This is the name of the inflectional morpheme that marks for when there are few in number.
400
What is aspect?
This is the inflectional category marking the internal time structure of an event.
400
What are dependent verb forms?
This class of word form is only found in embedded clauses.
400
What is 'edible'?
This is the result of deriving a facilitative adjective from the word 'eat.'
400
What is inflection?
This morphological category maintains the same basic concept as the base.
500
What is ablative?
This is the name of the inflectional morpheme that marks for movement away from a noun.
500
What is tense, aspect, and mood?
These three categories are sometimes all subsumed into one, because some possible combinations are often missing in different languages.
500
What are person and number?
These inflectional categories often appear on both nouns and verbs.
500
What is de-?
(As in deadjectival, denominal, deverbal)
In words for classifying derivational morphemes, this prefix is added to the name of the part of speech it requires as stem.
500
What is inflection?
This morphological category cannot be repeated.






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