Morphology and glossing

Paradigm

set of related inflected forms of the same word

inflection

grammatical marking to show how a word is being used in context

allomorphs

the various forms that a morpheme can take in context: a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning.

non phonologically conditioned allomorphs are considered

lexically conditioned [exceptions]

suppletion

some roots have very different stems in different morphological contexts

lexical morphemes

usually free morphemes

grammatical morphemes

grammar, meaning relies on their context eg articles, connectors and pronouns

bound grammatical morphemes are…

inflectional affixes

glossing

giving a morpheme by morpheme translation

how to gloss

1) transcription for original language in IPA in italics

2) same transcription w/ morpheme boundaries

3) a gloss for each morpheme in english eg cat-PL

4) an english translation