Phonology and morphology glossary

The relation between a morpheme and its signified meaning, which is simple if the meaning is a single concept, cumulative if the meaning is complex, or extended if more than one morpheme combine to denote a single concept.

The marker of a given morphosyntactic feature. For example, [s] is the exponent of plural in the word kits.

See exponence.

The notion of leaving a syllable (on the left or right edge of a word) unparsed (i.e. excluded from the foot structure), to reflect the fact that it is never stressed. In Macedonian, for instance, stress is antepenultimate, which can be analysed by leaving the final syllable extrametrical and assigning a trochaic foot.