morphological

English

Etymology

morphology + -ical

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Adjective

morphological (not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to, morphology.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
      In much the same way, morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that van and can have the respective plural forms vans and cans, but that the plural of man is men and not *mans. [...]

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