Suffixesare

Suffixesare is a term used in linguistics and language technology to describe a systematic inventory of suffix morphemes across languages. It refers to both a catalog of suffix forms and a methodology for organizing their grammatical functions, allomorphs, and usage contexts.

Origin of the name: the term blends "suffixes" with the copular verb "are," signaling the idea that suffixes are central to inflectional meaning and cross-linguistic comparison.

Scope and structure: entries are organized by language, function (such as plural, tense, case, mood, derivation), phonological form, allomorphy, and frequency. Each entry links a suffix to its morphological role and example productions across contexts.

Data sources and curation: the database draws from descriptive grammars, corpora, field notes, and existing lexicons. Entries are reviewed by linguists to validate functions and cross-linguistic correspondences, with notes on irregularity and situational use.

Applications: suffixesare supports computational morphology, machine translation, rule-based parsing, and language documentation. It provides cross-language patterns to aid transfer learning, NLP model training, and educational tools for learners studying inflectional systems.

Representative examples span English, Turkish, Spanish and German. English uses -s for plural or third-person singular present, -ed for past; Turkish employs -lar/-ler for plural and -iyor for present progressive; Spanish and German mark gender, number, or infinitival forms.

See also: morphology and inflection.