Glossary ablaut

bahuvrihi – another term for exocentric, drawn from the terminology of traditional Sanskrit grammarians.

bound morpheme, bound allomorph – morpheme or allomorph that cannotstand on its own as a word. A bound morpheme is one whose allomorphs are all bound. See also free morpheme.

case – grammatical category expressing the relationship of a noun phrase to theverb in its clause. See also nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental.

clitic – a small word which becomes attached to an adjacent and more importantword.

coda – see syllable.

cognate – of words, derived from the same historical source. For example, theEnglish word ‘father’ and the French word ‘pere’ are cognate, both beingdescended (through Proto-Germanic and Latin respectively) from the sameProto-Indo-European word.

comparison – grammatical category associated with adjectives. Many Englishadjectives distinguish basic or ‘positive’, ‘comparative’ and ‘superlative’ forms(e.g. hot, hotter, hottest).