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    Nonconcatenative morphology, also called discontinuous morphology and introflection, is a form of word formation and inflection in which the root is modified...
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    European Union. The Semitic languages are notable for their nonconcatenative morphology. That is, word roots are not themselves syllables or words, but...
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    reading traditions. Premodern Hebrew had a typically Semitic nonconcatenative morphology, arranging roots into patterns to form words. Biblical Hebrew...
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    phonology, and later Optimality Theory, to morphology, in particular to solve the problem of nonconcatenative morphology in Semitic languages. HHe completed...
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    and unusual morphology, i.e. method of constructing words from a basic root. Arabic has a nonconcatenative "root-and-pattern" morphology: A root consists...
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  • including Hebrew, Arabic, and Amharic. These also often involve nonconcatenative morphology, in which a word root is often placed into templates denoting...
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  • Derived stem (category Linguistic morphology)
    or causative action. Semitic languages make extensive use of nonconcatenative morphology, and most words share a set of two, three or four consonants...
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  • and declension are carried out by a mix of inflection and two nonconcatenative morphological processes: umlaut, a backness-based alteration to the root vowel;...
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  • Apophony (category Linguistic morphology)
    Metaphony Morphology (linguistics) Nonconcatenative morphology References for ablaut Bauer, Laurie (2003). Introducing linguistic morphology. Washington...
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    Egyptian that are typically Afroasiatic are its fusional morphology, nonconcatenative morphology, a series of emphatic consonants, a three-vowel system...
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  • vowel and consonant slots on a central timing tier (see also nonconcatenative morphology). The autosegmental formalism departs from the depiction of segments...
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  • Semitic root (category Linguistic morphology)
    plural Indo-European ablaut Khuzdul K-T-B Modern Hebrew grammar Nonconcatenative morphology Phono-semantic matching Proto-Indo-European root Š-L-M Transfix...
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  • Stemming (category Linguistic morphology)
    noun declensions), a Hebrew one is even more complex (due to nonconcatenative morphology, a writing system without vowels, and the requirement of prefix...
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  • complex while also removing -z: tōvaz → genitive touva "sky". Nonconcatenative morphology Affix Elision Manova 2011:125-6 Hardy & Montler, 1988, "Alabama...
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  • Broken plural (category Linguistic morphology)
    Proto-Semitic for king. Elative (gradation) Triconsonantal roots Nonconcatenative morphology Apophony Ratcliffe, Robert R. (1998). The "Broken" Plural Problem...
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  • does not seem to be attested outside the Afro-Asiatic family. Nonconcatenative morphology Affix Prefix Suffix Infix Circumfix Interfix Simulfix Suprafix...
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  • parts of the collective. Hebrew verbs (פועל /ˈpoʕal/) utilize nonconcatenative morphology extensively, meaning they have much more internal structure than...
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  • 2023. McCarthy, John J. (Summer 1981). "A Prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology". Linguistic Inquiry. 12 (3): 373–418. ISSN 0024-3892. JSTOR 4178229...
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  • University. Nevins, Andrew (2005). "Overwriting does not optimize in nonconcatenative morphology". Linguistic Inquiry. 36 (2): 275–287. doi:10.1162/0024389053710693...
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  • plurals), in which the consonantal root of the singular is changed (nonconcatenative morphology). These plural patterns are shared with other varieties of Arabic...
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  • Search Engine/Word study tool". perseus.tufts.edu. "The Old Perseus Latin morphology tool". perseus.tufts.edu. "6,000 English Words With Latin Origins List"...
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  • consonant. Afroasiatic languages feature a "root-and-pattern" (nonconcatenative) system of morphology, in which the root consists of consonants alone and vowels...
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