MORPHOPHONOLOGY

The speaker then chooses to either spatially “reify” this formative into an object or entity (i.e., a noun) or to temporally “activize” it into an act, event, or state (i.e., a verb).

• Words in General
  • Formatives or integrals
    • reified as an object or entity
      • Nominal Formatives or Nouns
    • activized as an act, event or state
      • Verbal Formatives or Verbs
  • Adjuncts or helper words
  • Referentials

• root word
  • stem-word