morphoparadigm

morphoparadigm

English

Alternative forms

• morpho-paradigm

Etymology

morpho- +‎ paradigm

Noun

morphoparadigm (plural morphoparadigms)

1. (linguistics) a set of forms for the conjugation of a verb.
   • 2003, C W. Conrad, Active, Middle, and Passive: Understanding Ancient Greek Voice, page 3:

     In fact, however, each of these verbs belongs to a morphoparadigm—a conjugated verb pattern—that has flexibility of verbal meaning and can fluctuate between intransitive notions of entering into a state or condition or activity and transitive notions indicative of actions being performed upon the grammatical subject.

   • 2004, Igor A. Bolshakov, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 5th International Conference, CICLing 2004; Seoul, Korea, February 2004; Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, "Getting One's First Million... Collocations", page 232:

     Based on the syntactic roles of the verbal collocatives in Russian, we divide their morphoparadigms into the grammemes of participles, gerunds, and personal forms plus infinitives.

   • 2013, Jeremy Johnson, Jeremy Johnson: The Collected Plays Vol. 2, "Better than Death", page 140:

     Fuck those Magdalene poofters! Godolphin Frost (imitating a plummy British academic) ‘One has to look no further to prove the supremacy of the Greeks than in the dissemination of particle complexities and the middle-passive morphoparadigm voice’