Morphology and Word Formation

A spontaneously formed word serving a unique or narrowly bounded naming need.

One of several phonetic or graphic realizations of the same morpheme.

A word formed by merging material and meaning from two expressions.

A legally and communicatively used name that makes goods, services, or organisations identifiable and distinguishable.

A lexical unit formed by combining two or more stems or words.

A grammatical pattern in which a relationship is marked primarily on the dependent element.

A proper name that comes to designate or give its name to a thing, quality, period, or group.

A grammatical pattern in which a relationship is marked primarily by the structural head of a construction.

A word formation whose components derive from different languages or morphological traditions.

The integration of a nominal expression into a verbal phrase.

The form under which a word is listed in a dictionary or linguistic index.

The smallest conventional unit that contributes grammatical or lexical meaning.

A newly formed or newly established expression within a speech community.

The formation or syntactic use of a noun from an expression of another word class or from an entire state of affairs.

A word formation blending form and meaning from several source words into one expression.

The formation of related word forms from etymologically distinct stems.

A device productively exploiting ambiguity, sound similarity or formal relations between words.

A historically inherited pattern of vowel alternation marking lexical or grammatical contrasts.

A bound morphological element attached to a base and contributing grammatical or lexical meaning.

The occurrence of different forms of a morpheme in different contexts.

A change in a sound within a root that serves a grammatical or word-forming function.

A word-forming device that expresses largeness, strength, or special intensity.

The formation of a shorter form by the supposed removal of a derivational element.

An expansion invented after the fact to fit an existing word or abbreviation.

A compound word that does not denote any of its constituent parts, but rather a bearer of the property expressed by those parts.

A fixed or preferred pairing of two coordinate words in a recurring pattern, often linked by and or or.

The prevention of an expected new formation by an already established competing form.

A two-part affix whose components jointly enclose a stem.

The development or attachment of an element that is grammatically independent but phonologically dependent.

A grammatically independent unit that is prosodically attached to an adjacent word.

A deliberately coined word whose sound and written form are designed for a particular act of naming.

Word formation that linguistically gathers individual elements into a collective whole.

A noun that denotes a plurality of units as a whole.

The formation of a word by combining multiple free or bound stems.

A bound but derivable unit of word formation, particularly in loanwords.

An element between the components of a compound word that marks or facilitates their connection.

The change in part of speech without a visible derivational element.

A word formation whose original internal structure is no longer transparent to present-day speakers.

Formation of a common expression from a proper name.

Word formation in which a new lexeme is created from a base through derivation.

Formation of a word form that makes something smaller, softer or emotionally coloured.

The use of prefabricated multiword sequences stored and deployed as recognisable units.

Complete repetition of a word, stem or root with a grammatical or lexical function.

A familiar, affectionate, or diminutive form of a name.

The process by which a free combination becomes a fixed unit no longer fully interpretable literally.

An affix inserted within a word stem.

The modification of a word form to indicate grammatical features without forming a new lexeme.

A stem-like expression such as sigh or ponder that marks an action, feeling or stage-direction-like aside.