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formal generality – of a derivational process, the characteristic of being formally 
regular and also of exploiting all or nearly all potential bases, without idiosyncratic 
‘gaps’. The formation of verbs with the suffix -en, although formally regular, is not 

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entirely general because it exhibits gaps: for example, there are no verbs ‘wetten’, 
‘blunten’ or ‘limpen’ corresponding to the adjectives wet, blunt and limp. 
formal regularity – of a derivational process, the characteristic that the kind of base 
to which the process can apply can be relatively precisely specified. For example, the 
formation of verbs with the suffix -en is formally regular in that nearly all its bases 
are monosyllabic adjectives ending in obstruents (plosives and fricatives), e.g. tough, 
fat, damp. 
free morpheme, free allomorph – morpheme or allomorph that can stand on its own 
as a word. A morpheme may have both free and bound allomorphs, e.g. wife is free 
but wive- is bound because it appears only in the plural word form wives. 
gender – syntactically and morphologically relevant classification of nouns, present 
in Old English (as in modern German and French) but lost in modern English. The 
gender to which an animate noun belongs may be determined by sex (hence the use 
of terms such as ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ for individual genders), but for most 
inanimate nouns in Old English gender was semantically arbitrary. 
grammatical word – the lexemic and grammatical content of a word form in a given 
context. For example, in the context She rows the boat, the word form rows 
represents the grammatical word ‘third person singular, present tense, of the verb 
row, while in the context two rows of beans the same word form represents the 
grammatical word ‘plural of the noun row’. hapax legomenon – in classical studies, a 
word that is ‘said only once’, i.e. a lexeme of which only one token occurs in the 
entire corpus of Greek literature (or Roman literature, in the case of Latin words). 
head – element within a compound or derived word that determines the syntactic 
status, or word class, of the whole word. Semantically, also, a compound noun whose 
head is X usually denotes a type of X. For example, house is the head of the 
compound greenhouse. Many linguists would also analyse some derivational affixes 
as heads, e.g. -er as the head of the noun teacher.