Glossary: morphology and phonology

Term referring to the ability of some elements of a sentence to require other elements in the sentence to bear a certain morphosyntactic feature although the first element itself does not seem to possess this feature, e.g., case assignment by verbs.

A word that plays a distinct grammatical role within an utterance. Distinct grammatical words can belong to a single lexeme. For example, the grammatical words sing and sings both belong to the lexeme sing. Also called morphosyntactic word.