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