{"id":8459,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphological_marking\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:56","slug":"morphological_marking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphological_marking\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphological marking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inflection of words to mark changes in meaning or grammatical function, such as the addition of &#8216;was&#8217; to nouns to mark their plurality. &nbsp;Languages that use a relatively large number of morphological (or inflectional) markings) tend to have no fixed word order. &nbsp;They do so in order to disambiguate the roles of arguments. &nbsp;Somewhat flexible word orders can also occur in languages with a high degree of morphological marking (e.g., Latin, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian). &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"grammatical_marking\">Grammatical marking<\/a>, <a href=\"morpheme\">Morpheme<\/a>, <a href=\"morphology_-linguistics-\">Morphology (linguistics)<\/a>, <a href=\"orthography\">Orthography<\/a>, <a href=\"syntax\">Syntax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inflection of words to mark changes in meaning or grammatical function, such as the addition of &#8216;was&#8217; to nouns to mark their plurality. &nbsp;Languages that use a relatively large number of morphological (or inflectional) markings) tend to have no fixed word order. &nbsp;They do so in order to disambiguate the roles of arguments. &nbsp;Somewhat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/morphological_marking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morphological marking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}