morphoparadigm

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noun

a set of forms for the conjugation of a verb.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

nounmorphoparadigm (plural morphoparadigms)

plural morphoparadigms · alternative morpho-paradigm

  1. human sciencesa set of forms for the conjugation of a verb.

    Based on the syntactic roles of the verbal collocatives in Russian, we divide their morphoparadigms into the grammemes of participles, gerunds, and personal forms plus infinitives.

    2004, Igor A. Bolshakov, “Getting One's First Million... Collocations”, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 5th International Conference, CICLing 2004; Seoul, Korea, February 2004; Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, page 232
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    In fact, however, each of these verbs belongs to a morphoparadigm—a conjugated verb pattern—that has flexibility of verbal meaning and can fluctuate between intransitive notions of entering into a state or condition or activity and transitive notions indicative of actions being performed upon the grammatical subject.

    2003, C W. Conrad, Active, Middle, and Passive: Understanding Ancient Greek Voice, page 3

    Fuck those Magdalene poofters! Godolphin Frost (imitating a plummy British academic) ‘One has to look no further to prove the supremacy of the Greeks than in the dissemination of particle complexities and the middle-passive morphoparadigm voice’

    2013, Jeremy Johnson, “Better than Death”, in Jeremy Johnson: The Collected Plays Vol. 2, page 140

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