Information about Word Stem
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The stem of the verb wait is wait: it is the part that is common to all its inflected variants.
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In linguistics, a stem is the part of a word that is common to all its inflected variants. Stems are often roots, i.e. atomic (unanalyzable) lexical morphemes, but a stem can also be morphologically complex, as seen with compound words (cf. the compound nouns meat ball or bottle opener) or words with derivational morphemes (cf. the derived verbs black-en or standard-ize). Thus, the stem of the complex English noun photo-grapher] is photographer and its only other inflected form is the plural photographers.
For another example, the root of the English verb form destabilized is stabil-, a form of stable that does not occur alone; the stem is de·stabil·ize, which includes the derivational affixes de- and -ize, but not the inflectional past tense suffix -(e)d.
Citation forms and bound morphemes
In languages with very little inflection, such as English and Chinese, the stem is usually not distinct from the "normal" form of the word (the lemma, citation or dictionary form). However, in other languages, stems may rarely or never occur on their own. For example, the English verb stem run is indistinguishable from its present tense form (except in the third person singular); but the equivalent Spanish verb stem tom- never appears as such, since it is cited with the infinitive inflection (tomar) and always appears in actual speech as a non-finite (infinitive or participle) or conjugated form. Morphemes like Spanish tom- which can't occur on their own in this way, are usually referred to as bound morphemes.
Paradigms and suppletion
A list of all the inflected forms of a stem is called its inflectional paradigm. The paradigm of the adjective large is given below, and the stem of this adjective is tall.- tall (positive); taller (comparative); tallest (superlative)
- great(positive); better (comparative); best (superlative)
References
- What is a stem? - SIL International, Glossary of Linguistics Terms.
- Bauer, Laurie (2003) Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Georgetown University Press; 2nd edition.
- Williams, Edwin and Anna-Maria DiScullio (1987) On the definition of a word. Cambridge MA, MIT Press.
See also
- Morphology (linguistics)
- Morphological typology
- Root (linguistics)
- Stemming algorithms (Computer science)
- List of Proto-Semitic stems
- Principal parts
- Lemma (linguistics)
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inflection or inflexion is the modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) to reflect grammatical (that is, relational) information, such as gender, tense, number or person.
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The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of, root morphemes.
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In grammar, a lexical category (also word class, lexical class, or in traditional grammar part of speech) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items
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In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. In spoken language, morphemes are composed of phonemes (the smallest linguistically distinctive units of sound), and in written language morphemes are composed of graphemes (the
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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (a word) that consists of more than one other lexeme.
An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning.
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An endocentric compound consists of a head, i.e. the categorical part that contains the basic meaning of the whole compound, and modifiers, which restrict this meaning.
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In linguistics, derivation is the process of creating new lexemes from other lexemes, for example, by adding a derivational affix. It is a kind of word formation.
A derivational suffix usually applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them into words of another
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A derivational suffix usually applies to words of one syntactic category and changes them into words of another
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lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
Specifically, in lexicography, "lemma" is a synonym for headword, q.v.
In morphology, a lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
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Specifically, in lexicography, "lemma" is a synonym for headword, q.v.
In morphology, a lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
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In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate. Instances of suppletion in a particular language are overwhelmingly restricted to its most commonly-used lexical items.
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Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see linguistic typology) that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.
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The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of, root morphemes.
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Stemming is the process for reducing inflected (or sometimes derived) words to their stem, base or root form — generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same
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This is a list of Proto-Semitic stems (triconsonantal roots and extensions) with their reflexes in several Semitic languages (i.e. actually-pronounced forms with vowels, as opposed to Semitic pure consonantal roots).
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principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms.
In English, the verb love derives all its forms systematically (love, loves, loved, loving
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In English, the verb love derives all its forms systematically (love, loves, loved, loving
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lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
Specifically, in lexicography, "lemma" is a synonym for headword, q.v.
In morphology, a lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
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Specifically, in lexicography, "lemma" is a synonym for headword, q.v.
In morphology, a lemma is the canonical form of a lexeme.
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