In linguistics, morphology (/ m ɔːr ˈ f ɒ l ə dʒ i /) is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation and …

Telugu (/ ˈ t ɛ l ʊ ɡ uː /; తెలుగు, Telugu pronunciation: ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Telugu people predominantly living in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.It is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Romansh retains a small number of words from these languages. Romansh has also been strongly influenced by German in vocabulary and morphosyntax. The language gradually retreated to its current area over the centuries, being replaced in other areas by Alemannic and Bavarian dialects. The earliest writing identified as Romansh dates from the ...

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. Affixes may be derivational, like English-ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed.They are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes.Affixation is the linguistic process that speakers use to form different words …

Morphology. In some languages, the three first-person pronouns appear to be unrelated. This is the case for Chechen, which has singular so/со, exclusive txo/тхо, and inclusive vay/вай. In others, all three are related, as in Tok Pisin (an English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea) singular mi, exclusive mi-pela, and inclusive yu-mi (a compound of mi with yu "you") or yu-mi …

Although the overall influence of Spanish on the morphosyntax of the Tagalog language was minimal,: 211 there are fully functional Spanish-derived words that have produced syntactic innovations on Tagalog. Clear influences of Spanish can be seen in the morphosyntax of comparison and the existence of Spanish-derived modals and conjunctions,: 211 as will be …

The word "polysynthesis" is composed of the Greek roots poly meaning "many" and synthesis meaning "placing together".. In linguistics a word is defined as a unit of meaning that can stand alone in a sentence, and which can be uttered in isolation. Words may be simple, consisting of a single unit of meaning, or they can be complex, formed by combining many small units of …

Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder (DSM-IV 315.32) is a communication disorder in which both the receptive and expressive areas of communication may be affected in any degree, from mild to severe. Children with this disorder have difficulty understanding words and sentences. This impairment is classified by deficiencies in expressive and receptive language …

Iñupiaq / ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ k / Iñupiaq : /iɲupiaq/, Inupiaq, Iñupiat / ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ t /, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit is an Inuit language, or perhaps languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Iñupiat language is a member of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan language ...

In morphology and syntax, a clitic (/ ˈ k l ɪ t ɪ k /, backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός enklitikós "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host. A clitic is pronounced like an affix ...