A '''morphological pattern''' is a set of associations and/or operations that build the various forms of a lexeme, possibly by inflection, agglutination, compounding or derivation. The term is used in the domain of lexicons and morphology.
==Note== It is important to distinguish the paradigm of a lexeme from a morphological pattern. In the context of an inflecting language, an inflectional morphological pattern is not the explicit list of inflected forms. A morphological pattern usually references a prototypical class of inflectional forms, e.g. ''ring'' as per ''sing''. In contrast, the paradigm of a lexeme is the explicit list of the inflected forms of the given lexeme (e.g. ''to ring'', ''rang'', ''rung''). Said in other terms, this is the difference between a description in intension (a morphological pattern) and a description in extension (a paradigm).
==See also== * lexical markup framework * morphology (linguistics) * Word formation
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