Linguistic Morphology Theory

A Linguistic Morphology Theory is a Theory for the rules that govern Word Formation.

• AKA: Morphological Theory, Linguistic Morphological Theory, Morphology.
• Context:
  • It can be a Lexical Morphology or a Derivational Morphology.
  • It can describe a Morphological System.
  • It can explain a Morphological Process, such as a Word Contraction Process.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • DNA-based Organism Morphology.
• See: Morphological Parsing Task, Linguistic Syntactic Theory.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=morphology
  • S: (n) morphology (the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants)
  • S: (n) morphology (studies of the rules for forming admissible words)
  • S: (n) morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure (the admissible arrangement of sounds in words)
  • S: (n) morphology, geomorphology (the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms)

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)
  • Morphology is the field of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words. (Words as units in the lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology. ...

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(biology)
• The term morphology in biology refers to the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern) of an organism or taxon and its component parts. This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function.

2007

• (Kakkonen, 2007) ⇒ Tuomo Kakkonen. (2007). “Framework and Resources for Natural Language Evaluation." Academic Dissertation. University of Joensuu.
  • Morphology How words are constructed from basic units
  • Morphology is the study of word formation. The morphological processes of a natural language create completely new words or word forms from a root form. Syntax is the linguistic study that describes how a language user combines words to form phrases and sentences. Semantics is the study of the meanings created by words and phrases. It is the purpose of natural language parsers to describe the syntax of the input sentences, usually without any reference to semantics (Sikkel 1997). Some parsers can also perform a morphological analysis to capture the structure of individual words

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