Morfologikus

Morfologikus is an adjective used in Hungarian to describe matters related to morphology, the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, including morphemes, affixes, stems, and inflectional patterns. The term is formed from morfológia (morphology) and the suffix -ikus, meaning “pertaining to.” In English-language linguistic writing the closest equivalent is morphological.

In linguistic analysis, morfologikus descriptions aim to reveal how words are built from smaller units and how these units encode meaning and grammatical function. This includes inflection, derivation, and compounding, as well as morphophonemic alternations. The concept is central to fields such as typology, language documentation, and natural language processing.

In computational linguistics, morfologikus tools such as morphological analyzers and generators segment words into morphemes, assign grammatical tags, and aid in lemmatization and disambiguation. For example, in Hungarian a word like “házakban” can be analyzed as “ház” (root: house) + “-ak” (plural) + “-ban” (in). Such analyses support lexicon creation, parsing, and language learning resources.

See also: morphology, morpheme, Hungarian language morphology.