Word Form

I told him I think you sometimes have to say things more than once to make them totally true but he said I just didn't realize that they were true from the moment I said them and I asked him if maybe just thinking something made it true but he thought no, maybe if you think something in word-form but really until it leaves your head and becomes public its not true. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among more than 100 Indo-European languages and dialects, the words for some meanings such as tail evolve rapidly, being expressed across languages by dozens of unrelated words, while others evolve much more slowly -- such as the number two, for which all Indo-European language speakers use the same related word-form. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Between any of the European languages and Japanese there is no visible kinship in word-form, significance, grammatical system, rhetorical arrangements. ❋ Soseki Natsume (1891)

Instead of analyzing a word-form as a set of morphemes arranged in sequence, a word-form is said to be the result of applying rules that alter a word-form or stem in order to produce a new one. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An inflectional rule takes a stem, changes it as is required by the rule, and outputs a word-form; a derivational rule takes a stem, changes it as per its own requirements, and outputs a derived stem; a compounding rule takes word-forms, and similarly outputs a compound stem. ❋ Unknown (2008)