fullmorphology
Full morphology is a term used in linguistics to refer to a comprehensive treatment of the morphological system of a language or of a lexical entry. It aims to account for all morphs that can affect a word, including inflectional endings, derivational affixes, clitics, and complex processes such as compounding, vowel harmony, reduplication, and other morphophonological alternations. A full morphologist’s account typically lists lemmas, the complete set of inflectional paradigms, derivational possibilities, and any allomorphy or context-dependent alternations that yield the word’s surface forms.
In practice, the concept is informal and its scope varies by author or application. Some grammars or
Languages with rich morphology, such as agglutinative or highly inflected languages, highlight the usefulness of full
See also: morphology, inflection, derivation, allomorphy, morphophonology, lemmatization, computational morphology.