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allomorph
a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
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free form, free morpheme
a morpheme that can occur alone
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bound form, bound morpheme
a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
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classifier
a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
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ending, termination
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
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combining form
a bound form used only in compounds
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affix
a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
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postfix, suffix
an affix that is added at the end of the word
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inflectional ending, inflectional suffix
an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
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morphophoneme
(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme