Words have phonological units {morpheme}|, such as word roots, prefixes, suffixes, infixes, and qualities. Morphemes are not separate and independent but have sequences. Phonological units can have preferred order or no order. Succeeding-morpheme probability depends on preceding morphemes. People recognize morphemes only in context, because preceding and succeeding morphemes indicate current morpheme through associations and sound cues.
Morphemes can be alone {free form} {form, grammar}. Free morphemes can be in complex forms {underlying form}. Morphemes attached to words can have only one meaning {bound form}.
Rules can combine morphemes {morphology, grammar}|. Morphological rules can indicate case, tense, and number {inflectional morphology} or make new words {derivational morphology}.
6-Linguistics-Grammar-Inflection
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