Stem
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A stem is a morphological constituent to which affixes may be attached or to which morphological operations may be applied.
- "A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added." (Gleason 1955:59)
Reference
Gleason, H. Allan. 1955. An introduction to descriptive linguistics. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Other languages
German Stamm
