Morphological Process
Morphological Process
A morphological process is a means of changing a stem to adjust its meaning to fit its syntactic and communicational context.
Most languages that are agglutinative in any way use suffixation. Some of these languages also use prefixation and infixation. Very few languages use only prefixation, and none employ only infixation or any of the other types of morphological processes listed below.
Page/s: 125–126, 130
Source: Matthews 1991
Matthews, P. H. 1991.Morphology. 2nd edition. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
More specific terms
- NT1 ↓ Affixation
- NT1 ↓ Circumfixation
- NT1 ↓ Modification ►
- NT1 ↓ Prefixation
- NT1 ↓ Reduplication ►
- NT1 ↓ Suffixation
Related terms
- RT⇆ Agglutinative Language
- RT⇆ Infixation
- RT⇆ Inflection
- RT⇆ Morphosyntactic Operation
- RT⇆ Stem
- RT⇆ Suppletion
- RT⇆ Suprafix
