What is Morphology?
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"What is Morphology?" is an introductory linguistics textbook by Mark Aronoff that explains the structure and formation of words across languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What is Morphology? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8404805 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What is Morphology? Context triple: [Mark Aronoff, notableWork, What is Morphology?]
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A.
Indo-European morphology
Indo-European morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the structure, formation, and historical development of word forms in Indo-European languages.
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B.
“Lexical Phonology and Morphology”
“Lexical Phonology and Morphology” is a foundational linguistic work by Paul Kiparsky that develops a theory integrating phonological rules with morphological structure in a stratified lexicon.
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C.
Old Norse morphology
Old Norse morphology is the inflectional system of the Old Norse language, characterized by rich noun declensions, verb conjugations, and grammatical gender that underlie many modern North Germanic languages.
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D.
“How Abstract is Phonology?”
“How Abstract is Phonology?” is a seminal linguistic paper by Paul Kiparsky that critically examines the level of abstractness appropriate in phonological representations within generative phonology.
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E.
maz (macrolanguage)
The maz macrolanguage is a collective ISO 639-3 code encompassing the various closely related Mazatec languages spoken by the Mazatec people of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What is Morphology? Target entity description: "What is Morphology?" is an introductory linguistics textbook by Mark Aronoff that explains the structure and formation of words across languages.
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A.
Indo-European morphology
Indo-European morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the structure, formation, and historical development of word forms in Indo-European languages.
-
B.
“Lexical Phonology and Morphology”
“Lexical Phonology and Morphology” is a foundational linguistic work by Paul Kiparsky that develops a theory integrating phonological rules with morphological structure in a stratified lexicon.
-
C.
Old Norse morphology
Old Norse morphology is the inflectional system of the Old Norse language, characterized by rich noun declensions, verb conjugations, and grammatical gender that underlie many modern North Germanic languages.
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D.
“How Abstract is Phonology?”
“How Abstract is Phonology?” is a seminal linguistic paper by Paul Kiparsky that critically examines the level of abstractness appropriate in phonological representations within generative phonology.
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E.
maz (macrolanguage)
The maz macrolanguage is a collective ISO 639-3 code encompassing the various closely related Mazatec languages spoken by the Mazatec people of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
introductory linguistics textbook
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain how words are formed in different languages
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introduce basic concepts of morphology ⓘ |
| author | Mark Aronoff ⓘ |
| coversTopic |
derivation
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inflection ⓘ morphemes ⓘ morphological typology ⓘ relationship between morphology and phonology ⓘ relationship between morphology and syntax ⓘ word formation processes ⓘ |
| focusesOn | cross-linguistic comparison of word structure ⓘ |
| genre |
academic textbook
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linguistics textbook ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
book
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print ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
introductory linguistics courses
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students of linguistics ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
linguistics
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morphology ⓘ |
| teaches |
morphological analysis
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structure of words ⓘ word formation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: What is Morphology? Description of subject: "What is Morphology?" is an introductory linguistics textbook by Mark Aronoff that explains the structure and formation of words across languages.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.