Morphological Rule

A Morphological Rule is a Word Formation Rule that can form a Word Form from one or more Morphemes.

• AKA: Word Production Rule.
• Context:
  • It can be:
    • a Morphological Compounding Rule.
    • a Morphological Derivational Rule.
    • a Morphological Inflection Rule.
    • a Morphological Post-Inflection Rule.
  • It can be used during a Morphological Process.
  • It can be a Part Of a Linguistic Morphology Theory.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Grammatical Rule.
• See: Lexical Rule, Morphologically Complex Word.

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References

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=morphological%20rule
  • S: (n) morphological rule, rule of morphology (a linguistic rule for the formation of words)

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