1. Morphology- a field of linguistics focused on the study of the forms and formation of
words in a language.
part of speech- is a category of words which have similar grammatical properties.
grammeme.There are eight main parts of speech nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs,
adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.
allomorph- is a variant form of a morpheme about the sounds and phonetic symbol but it
doesn’t change the meaning
inflection-is a process of word formation in which items are added to the base form of a
word to express grammatical meanings.
2.
suppletivity
transformation
transposition
substitution
binary opposition
3.
privative opposition
equipollent opposition
gradual opposition
derivation
compounding
4.
conversion
lexicalization
affix
substantive
case
5.
gender
number
accusative
genitive
voice
6.
mood
perfect
preterit
aspect
finite verb
7.
contraction
deixis
grade
comparative
superlative
8. syntax
member of the sentence
headword
conjunct
adjunct
9. function word
complement
predication
secondary predication
coordination
10. subordination
agreement
government
fronting
ellipsis
11. backchannel
inversion
dislocation
non-sentence
utterance
12. collocation - is formed by combinations of two or more words that are used together in
sentences.
colligation- is a grouping of words based on the way they function in a syntactic structure
paratxis - refers to placing together sentences, clauses or phrases without conjunctions.
hypotaxis - is a grammatical and rhetorical term used to describe an arrangement of
phrases or clauses in a dependent or subordinate relationship
complement - is a word or word group that completes the predicate in a sentence.
13. parcellation
theme
rheme
actant
agent
14. benefactive
locative
patient
experiencer
valence
discourse analysis
proposition
cohesion