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Disfix, the Glossary

In linguistic morphology, a disfix is a subtractive morpheme, a morpheme manifest through the subtraction of segments from a root or stem.^[1]

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Affixes

Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. Disfix and affix are Affixes.

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Alabama language

Alabama, also known as Alibamu, is a Native American language, spoken by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas.

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Apocope

In phonology, apocope is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel.

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Consonant gradation

Consonant gradation is a type of consonant mutation (mostly lenition but also assimilation) found in some Uralic languages, more specifically in the Finnic, Samic and Samoyedic branches.

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Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.

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Estonian language

Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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Muskogean languages

Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a Native American language family spoken in different areas of the Southeastern United States.

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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 and which does not involve stringing morphemes together sequentially.

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Penult

Penult is a linguistics term for the second-to-last syllable of a word.

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Pluractionality

In linguistics, pluractionality, or verbal number, if not used in its aspectual sense, is a grammatical aspect that indicates that the action or participants of a verb is, or are, plural.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Root (linguistics)

A root (or root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.

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Segment (linguistics)

In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech".

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Suppletion

In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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Timothy Montler

Timothy Montler is an American academic and linguist.

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Word stem

In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.

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Zellig Harris

Zellig Sabbettai Harris (October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfix

Also known as Subtractive morphology.