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  • curprev 08:1208:12, 17 May 20231AmNobody24 talk contribsm 15,809 bytes −9,761 Rollback edit(s) by 2402:3A80:19F4:BE36:0:0:0:2 (talk): Vandalism (RW 16.1) undo Tags: RW Rollback
  • curprev 07:0407:04, 17 May 20232402:3a80:19f4:be36::2 talk 25,570 bytes +2,224 →‎References: Katamba, Francis (2006). Morphology (2nd ed.). Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 42. ISBN 9781403916440. "Root". Glossary of Linguistic Terms. 3 December 2015. Kemmer, Suzanne. "Words in English: Structure". Words in English. Retrieved 26 December 2018. Compare: Durkin, Philip (2009). "8: Semantic change". The Oxford Guide to Etymology. Oxford: Oxford University Press (published 2011). p. xciv. ISBN 9780191618789. Retrieved 2017-11-10. In etymologi... undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
  • curprev 07:0307:03, 17 May 20232402:3a80:19f4:be36::2 talk 23,346 bytes +2,852 →‎Category-neutral roots: Decompositional generative frameworks suggest that roots hold little grammatical information and can be considered "category-neutral".[7] Category-neutral roots are roots without any inherent lexical category but with some conceptual content that becomes evident depending on the syntactic environment.[7] The ways in which these roots gain lexical category are discussed in Distributed Morphology and the Exoskeletal Model. Theories adopting a category-neutral approa... undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
  • curprev 07:0007:00, 17 May 20232402:3a80:19f4:be36::2 talk 20,494 bytes +1,711 The root of a word is a unit of meaning (morpheme) and, as such, it is an abstraction, though it can usually be represented alphabetically as a word. For example, it can be said that the root of the English verb form running is run, or the root of the Spanish superlative adjective amplísimo is ampli-, since those words are derived from the root forms by simple suffixes that do not alter the roots in any way. In particular, English has very little inflection and a tendency to have words that a... undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
  • curprev 06:5906:59, 17 May 20232402:3a80:19f4:be36::2 talk 18,783 bytes +2,974 A root (or root word) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.[1] In morphology, a root is a morphologically simple unit which can be left bare or to which a prefix or a suffix can attach.[2][3] The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (this root is then called the base word), which carries aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist... undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

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  • curprev 01:1101:11, 16 April 2021Jhertel talk contribs 15,707 bytes +33 →‎top: Somewhat clumsily added link to semitic roots. The link should definitely be there, but it could be added more elegantly. Please do that if you have a good idea of how to do it. undo Tag: Visual edit
  • curprev 01:0401:04, 16 April 2021Jhertel talk contribs 15,674 bytes +122 →‎top: Added information about the use of the mathematical symbol √ to indicate the root of a word. Copied the specific text from the Sanskrit article. I am not an expert; corrections are welcome. It is important to mention and explain the use of the √ symbol, as it is very often used in linguistics articles and we need a way to explain it to laypersons who never saw it used in this way before. undo Tag: Visual edit

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