A morphological pattern is a set of associations and/or operations that build the various forms of a
lexeme
A lexeme () is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken ...
, possibly by
inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (or inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and defin ...
,
agglutination
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative lang ...
,
compounding
In the field of pharmacy, compounding (performed in compounding pharmacies) is preparation of a custom formulation of a medication to fit a unique need of a patient that cannot be met with commercially available products. This may be done for me ...
or
derivation
Derivation may refer to:
Language
* Morphological derivation, a word-formation process
* Parse tree or concrete syntax tree, representing a string's syntax in formal grammars
Law
* Derivative work, in copyright law
* Derivation proceeding, a proc ...
.
Context
The term is used in the domain of lexicons and morphology.
Note
It is important to distinguish the paradigm of a lexeme from a morphological pattern. In the context of an
inflecting language
Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use a single inflectional morpheme to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features.
F ...
, an inflectional morphological pattern is not the explicit list of inflected forms. A morphological pattern usually references a prototypical class of inflectional forms, e.g. ''ring'' as per ''sing''. In contrast, the paradigm of a lexeme is the explicit list of the inflected forms of the given lexeme (e.g. ''to ring'', ''rang'', ''rung''). Said in other terms, this is the difference between a description in
intension
In any of several fields of study that treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language — an intension is any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or anoth ...
(a morphological pattern) and a description in
extension
Extension, extend or extended may refer to:
Mathematics
Logic or set theory
* Axiom of extensionality
* Extensible cardinal
* Extension (model theory)
* Extension (predicate logic), the set of tuples of values that satisfy the predicate
* E ...
(a paradigm).
See also
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lexical markup framework
Language resource management - Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613:2008), is the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC37 standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons.
The scope ...
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morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology () 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. Morp ...
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Word formation
In linguistics, word formation is an ambiguous term that can refer to either:
* the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or
* the creation of new lexemes in a particular language
Morphological
A common method of word for ...
Sources
* Aronoff, Mark (1993).
Morphology by Itself. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
* Comrie, Bernard. (1989). ''Language Universals and Linguistic Typology''; 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (pbk).
* Matthews, Peter. (1991). ''Morphology''; 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (hb). (pbk).
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Mel'čuk, Igor A. (1993-2000). ''Cours de morphologie générale'', vol. 1-5. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
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Stump, Gregory T. (2001). ''Inflectional Morphology: a theory of paradigm structure''. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; no. 93.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 0-521-78047-0 (hbk).
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
pattern
A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated l ...